Two papers presented and discussed in this session were directed to the general questions of whether a major life event is necessarily reflected in an artist's work and to the specific example of Mozart at two points in his life. Papers relating to these events were presented. The first event was the death of Mozart's mother, occurring while he alone was with her on a trip to Paris in 1778 (presented by Julie Jaffe Nagel, Ph.D.), and the second, the period of his separation from his father, Leopold, in 1781 (presented by Stuart Feder, M.D.). For the first example, there was a live performance of the Piano Sonata in A, (K#300) by Professor Louis Nagel and for the second, a videotape of a scene from The Abduction From the Seraglio. A lively and well-attended discussion opened more questions than could be answered, leading to the following interim response to the question raised: yes, no, and maybe.