Bölzlschiessen

Bölzlschiessen was a form of domestic recreation that involved shooting darts at decorated targets with an air gun.

The most famous participant was Leopold's son Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who began playing at the age of ten[1] or earlier.

Wolfgang's departure from his cousin (and probable love interest) Maria Anna Thekla Mozart was from Augsburg where she lived; he was heading toward Mannheim on his job-hunting tour.

On one target, the poem read as follows (verse translation by Halliwell): Another commemorates an event in which she tripped on a step in a local store, exposing her posterior in public.

[9] Yet another celebrates her birthday by depicting her in a cradle as Leopold's violin pupil, the castrato Francesco Ceccarelli, plays her a lullaby.

"[10] While away on his job hunting trip, Wolfgang wrote to his father specifying the form of Bölzlschiessen target he would like the family to use during his absence.