[Footnote 48: Gaspari, p. 28. Fétis, Biogr. Univ., VI., p. 226. Köchel, A.M.Z., 1864, P- 495.] [Footnote 49: Nissen, p. 226. A. M. Z.. XXII., Beil. I.] [Footnote 50: Rudhart, Gesch. d. Oper zu München, I., p. 138.] [Footnote 51: Burney, Reise, I., p. 96.] [Footnote 52: It consisted, according to L. Mozart, of 14 first and as many second violins, 2 claviers, 2 double-basses, 6 violoncelli, 2 bassoons, 6 viols, 2 oboes, and 2 "flautraversen," "which always play with 4 oboes when there are no flutes," 4 corni di caccia, and 2 clarini, in all, 60 performers.] [Footnote 53: A Bolognese exclaimed of Dittersdorf's playing, "Come è mai possibile, che una tartaruga tedesca possa arrivare a tale perfezione!" (Selbstbiogr., p. III.)] [Footnote 54: The score remained in Milan after their departure, for the copyist had orders for five complete copies, besides single songs.] [Footnote 55: L. Mozart here relates a musical event that seemed to him hardly credible in the Italy of that day: "We heard two beggars, man and wife, singing in the street, and they sang in fifths without missing one note. I never heard the like in Germany. In the distance I thought it was two persons, each singing a song; but as we came nearer we found it was a duet in exact fifths."] [Footnote 56: L. Mozart here relates a musical event that seemed to him hardly credible in the Italy of that day: "We heard two beggars, man and wife, singing in the street, and they sang in fifths without missing one note. I never heard the like in Germany. In the distance I thought it was two persons, each singing a song; but as we came nearer we found it was a duet in exact fifths."] [Footnote 57: Burney, Reise, I., p. 94.] [Footnote 58: Meissner, Biographie Naumanns, I., p. in.] [Footnote 59: Hasse declared that six months were necessary for a good opera (Man-fredini reg. armon., p. 134), that was plenty of time; Naumann writes, that in Venice an opera had to be written, learnt, and produced within a month.] [Footnote 60: Metastasio, Opp. post., III., pp. 116, 164.] [Footnote 61: Orelli, Beitr. z. Gesch. der Ital. Poesie, II., p. 3.] [Footnote 62: Carpani, Le Haydine, p. 83. Kandler, Cenni int. alia vita del G. A. Hasse, p. 27: "Questo ragazzo ci farà dimenticar tutti"] [Footnote 63: Marpurg, Krit. Beitr., I., p. 227.] [Footnote 64: Meissner, Biogr. Naumanns, I., pp. 120, 227, 283.] [Footnote 65: Cf. Betrachtungen d. Mannh. Tonsch, I., p. 307.] [Footnote 66: Parini's Descrizione delle feste celebrate in Milano per le nozze delle L.L.A.A.R.R. l'arcid. Ferdinando e l'arcid. Maria Beatrice. Milan, 1825.] [Footnote 67: Mozart bequeathed this watch to Joseph Strebl, a Vienna merchant, with whom he used to play bowls.] [Footnote 68: Teutsch. Mercur, 1775, III., p. 240.]