 Leopold Mozart's failure to advance above his Vice-Kapellmeister position at Salzburg is attributed by the "Grove Dictionary" to the great amount of time that the journeys kept him away from Salzburg (the longest journey was about three and a half years).After the final return from Italy in 1773, Leopold was repeatedly passed over for the Kapellmeister post.Although Mozart is portrayed (notably by Halliwell 1998) as generally quite worried about money, the Mozart family by 1773 evidently felt prosperous enough to upgrade their living quarters.