The house was always full to overflowing, and the public never tired of applauding Mozart and calling him out. But care was now taken that the performances should not follow one another too frequently or too rapidly, the effect of which would soon have been an improvement in the taste of the public. Moreover, the success of a new opera, _Una Cosa rara_--it serves in the _Don Giovanni_ as table-music--by Martin, the Spaniard, was enough to throw the _Figaro_ into the shade both with the emperor and with the people, and then to displace it entirely. The success of that opera was incredible, and such as might have been expected from a public whose noblest representative, the emperor Joseph himself, told Dittersdorf the composer of _Doctor and Apotheker_, that he liked Martin’s light, pleasant melodies better than Mozart’s style, who drowned the voice of the singers with the noise of the accompaniment. “Happy man,” said Mozart to the young composer Gyrowetz, who went to Italy in the fall of 1785, “if I could only travel with you, how glad I would be! I must give a lesson now in order to earn a pittance.” He thought again of going to England, but no inducement to go there offered. And yet the _Figaro_ was attended by very immediate success even to its composer. It gave occasion to the writing of the _Don Giovanni_; and this leads us to the conclusion of a chapter in Mozart’s life descriptive of a portion of that life as important as it was replete with action. The love of the Bohemians for music and their skill in the art are well known. After Mozart had made his first appearance in Vienna, the people of Prague appropriated him just as they have Richard Wagner in our own day, and the _Figaro_ which followed the _Elopement from the Seraglio_ was received with an amount of applause which can be compared only with that subsequently accorded to the _Magic Flute_. It was given almost without interruption during the whole of the winter 1786-87. The enthusiasm of the audiences was unparalleled. They never tired of hearing it. Arrangements for the piano, for wind-instruments, quartets, dances, etc., were made from it. _Figaro_ was re-echoed in the streets, in gardens, and even the harper had to play its _Dort Vergiss_ if he wished to be heard.