Facetious Names
In the frequently playful letters of his youth Mozart sometimes would spell his name backwards, viz., "Mozart Wolfgang" or "Trazom".
"Amadeus" may have originated as a facetious name; Mozart never used the name except in jest, when he signed himself in mock Latin in three letters as "Wolfgangus Amadeus Mozartus"; this was certainly no accident as in one letter he did the same to the date of the letter as well: adding "-us" to the end of each word.
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