An operetta, the _Il Re Pastore_, “The Royal Shepherd,” written in honor of the sojourn of the Archduke Maximilian Francis in Salzburg, in the same year, 1775, must also be classed among the youthful works of our artist. He had now passed his twentieth year. He had learned all there was to be learned, and proved it in many ways by what he had achieved in practice. His feelings urged him to display his powers before the world. He felt himself a man with “Muth sich in die Welt zu wagen, Der Erde Weh, der Erde Glück zu tragen.” His boyhood was over; the youth was growing into the man, and the man craves to try his strength--craves action. This craving brought our artist, for the first time, into a personal struggle with life; and as he was compelled henceforth to carry on that struggle alone, experience quickly strengthened his moral power; and we find him no longer simply the divinely favored artist, but the strong, noble-minded man as well. CHAPTER II. 1777-1779. THE GREAT PARISIAN ARTISTIC JOURNEY. Disgusted With Salzburg--In Vienna Again--Salzburg Society--Character of Musicians in the Last Century--Jerome Colloredo, Archbishop of Salzburg--Mozart’s Letter to Him--The Father’s Solicitude for His Son--Paternal Advice--New Compositions--Incidents of his Journey--Meets With Opposition--Secret Enemies--His Ambition to Elevate the Character of the German Opera--Disappointments--His Description of German “Free City” Life--Meeting With Stein--In His Uncle’s Family--“Baesle”--Meeting With the Cannabichs--Attachment for Rosa Cannabich--Influence of this Attachment on His Music--The Weber Family--The _Non so d’onde viene_--Circumstances of its Composition. In a letter written in the year 1776, Wolfgang complained to Father Martini, of Bologna, that he was living in a city in which musicians met with little success; that the theater there had no persons of good ability, because persons of good ability wished good pay; and he adds: “Generosity is a fault of which we cannot be accused.” He informs the reverend father that he was engaged writing Church music and chamber music, but that the pieces had to be always very short, because such was the desire of the archbishop, and he closes thus: “Alas, that we are so far away from you, dearest master. Were we nearer to each other, how much I would have to say to you.” It is easy to see that the young _maestro_ felt impelled to go where he might breathe a freer air, and prove by his deeds the power that was in him. As early as in the summer of 1773, the father and son were again together in Vienna, but not even the shrewdness of the father, with all his experience, could devise any way to the success he desired there, and Wolfgang himself wrote from Munich to his mother that she should not wish for their immediate return, for she knew well enough how much he needed a breathing spell, and he says: “We shall be soon enough with ----.”