absence for a concert tour and left with his mother for Munich. The
             courts of Europe ignored the 21-year-old composer in his search for a more congenial and
             rewarding appointment. He traveled to Mannheim, then the musical center of Europe
             because of its famous orchestra, in hopes of a post, and there fell in love with Aloysia
             Weber. Leopold promptly ordered his son and wife to Paris. His mother's death in Paris
             in July 1778, his rejection by Weber, and the neglect he suffered from the aristocrats
             whom he courted made the two years from Mozart's arrival in Paris a painful one.
             While at home Mozart composed two masses and a number of sonatas,
             symphonies, and concertos; these works reveal for the first time a distinctive style and a
             completely mature understanding of musical media. In 1781, Mozart's first great stage
             work, the opera Idomeneo, was produced in Munich, where Mozart also wrote his
             Serenade for 13 wind instruments, K361.
             On his return from Munich, however, the hostility brewing between him
             and the Archbishop came to a head, and Mozart resigned. On delivering his resignation
             he was verbally abused and eventually, physically ejected from the archbishop's
             residence. Without patronage, Mozart was forced to c
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