A notebook found in the Bibliothèque nationale de France shows Mozart teaching composition in Paris in 1778 to Marie-Louise-Philippine de Bonnières, a gifted young aristocratic harpist. Its 44 pages hold exercises and seven short pieces for flute and harp, with teacher and pupil writing on the same pages. Mozart proposes and corrects ideas while his pupil copies, completes and experiments. Six of the pieces are finished, and the seventh stops unfinished, perhaps because her lessons ended when she married that July. Mozart had dismissively called her uninspired in letters to his father, but the handwriting shows her serious engagement with composition. Such domestic music-making, staged in aristocratic salons, was where many women musicians worked, often leaving little written trace.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.