The only acceptable ringtone on my new mobile phone is the overture to the Magic Flute, unfortunately in MIDI file. I guess this is Samsung’s modest tribute to the Mozart year, but as the mobile phone does not identify the tune, its significance will probably pass most people by. One Sunday some time ago a colleague of mine was cruising on his yacht Papageno on the river Tagus facing Lisbon; as he passed a schooner he heard someone whistle ‘Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja . . .’. He whistled back, and the man waved to him. The schooner, not surprisingly, had a German flag. On the other hand, in a remote corner of northern Portugal the petrol station shop is selling the Philips complete edition of Mozart’s recorded works (though I did not have the courage to ask the attendant how many collections, or even individual discs, he had sold).