The entire music, sung by the choir of orphans, was composed for the occasion by Wolfgang Mozart, son of Dr. L. Mozart, Kapellmeister at Salzburg, a boy twelve years of age, well known for his extraordinary talent; it was conducted by the composer with the utmost precision and accuracy, and was received with universal applause and admiration. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: The extracts from L. Mozart's letters given by Nissen are almost our only sources of information for this journey.] [Footnote 2: G. Forster, Schriften VII., p. 270.] [Footnote 3: A.M. Z., II., p. 301.] [Footnote 4: Burney, Reise, II., p. 182. Duten's Mém., I., p. 353.] [Footnote 5: Garat. Mém. sur Suard, II., p. 218. Duten's Mém., I., p. 347.] [Footnote 6: Zimmermann, Briefe, p. 96.] [Footnote 7: Burney, Reise, II., p. 189.] [Footnote 8: Gervinus, Gesch. der poet. National-Litteratur, IV., p. 384. Devrient, Gesch. der deutschen Schauspielkunst, II., p. 191; and see also how Sonnenfels expresses himself (Ges. Schr., V., pp. 157, 191, or in a letter to Klotz, I., p. 2) in the same year, 1768.] [Footnote 9: Sonnenfels gives a detailed description of the company (Ges. Schr., V., p. 290).] [Footnote 10: Metastatio, Opp. post., II., pp. 278, 290, cf. Arteaga, Le rivoluzioni del teatro musicale Italiano, III., p. 126 (II., p. 397).] [Footnote 11: Cramer, Magasin d. Mus., I., p. 365. Metastatio, Lettere ined. (Nirza, 1796), p. 46.] [Footnote 12: Burney, Reise, II., p. 188.] [Footnote 13: Mane ini, Rifless. prat, sul canto fig., p. 30.] [Footnote 14: Burney, Reise, II., p. 172.] [Footnote 15: Dittersdorff, Selbstbiographie, p. 7.] [Footnote 16: Muller, Ab8chied v. d. Bühne, p. 72.] [Footnote 17: Müller, zuverl. Nachr., I., p. 13.] [Footnote 18: Carpani, Le Haydine, p. 82. Kelly, Remin., I., p. 103.] [Footnote 19: It is mentioned only, so far as I am aware, by Biedenfeld. Die Komische Oper., p. 69.] [Footnote 20: Nicolai, Reise, IV., p. 574.] [Footnote 21: Sonnenfels, Ges. Schr., V., p. 296. He reappeared in Rome in 1780, a toothless old man. (Teutsch. Merc., 1789, III., p. 210.)] [Footnote 22: Sonnenfeu, Ges. Schr., V., p. 300.] [Footnote 23: Sonnenfels, Ges. Schr., V., p. 291. Burney, Reise, I., p. 63. Müller zuverl. Nachr., I., p. 73. He died at Vienna in 1772, at the age of sixty-seven. (Ibid. II., p. 132.)] [Footnote 24:Sonnenfels, Ges. Schr., V., p. 301.] [Footnote 25: Sonnenfels, Ges. Schr., V., p. 293.] [Footnote 26: Sonnenfels, Ges. Schr., V., p. 293. Müller, zuverl. Nachr., I., p. 73. Kelly, Remin., I., p. 66.] [Footnote 27: Sonnenfels, Ges. Schr., V., p. 299.] [Footnote 28: One of Fracasso's songs was twice composed, so was the middle movement of another, and an inserted song for Ninetta.] [Footnote 29: In the beautiful aria for Polidoro, before described, a tedious passage was afterwards judiciously struck out by Mozart.]