Discord Over Mozart Portrait

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Miniature painting of Mozart on ivory, in a brass frame beneath glass, inset in a snuff box made of tortoiseshell (Photo: Mozarteum)

Miniature painting of Mozart on ivory, in a brass frame beneath glass, inset in a snuff box made of tortoiseshell (Photo: Mozarteum)

Researchers in Salzburg say they have figured out what Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart looked like.

They say that a small portrait on a tobacco snuff box is that of the musical genius.

It shows him gazing directly at the viewer and without his signature white powdered wig.

This latest portrait has caused a stir among Mozart scholars.

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Mozart scholar and musicologist Michael Lorenz.

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