Tom Linley was the musician and friend Mozart never forgot.
‘He was a true genius,’ Mozart told the Irish tenor Michael Kelly, as they sat at supper in Vienna in 1784. ‘Had he lived, he would have been one of the great ornaments of the musical world.’
Mozart wasn’t the only person to be grief-stricken at news of Tom’s death at the age of 22 - in a boating accident on the newly created lake at Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire, in
