LIFE OF MOZART By Otto Jahn. Translated from The German by Pauline D. Townsend. With A Preface by George Grove, Esq., D.C.L. In Three Volumes Vol. II. London Novello, Ewer & Co. 1881. CONTENTS: XVIII.--French Opera.................. 1 XIX.--Paris, 1778.....................34 XX.--The Return Home.................. 71 XXI.--Court Service in Salzburg............84 XXII.--" Idomeneo ".....................126 XXIII.--Release .....................170 XXIV.--First Attempts in Vienna............186 XXV.--" Die Entpühruno aus dbm Serail ".........216 XXVI.--Courtship.....................249 XXVII.--Married Life..................264 XXVIII.--Mozart's Family and Friends............312 XXIX.--Social Intercourse...............352 XXX.--Van Swieten and Classical Music.........374 XXXI.--Mozart and Freemasonry...............400 XXXII.--Mozart as an Artist...............410 XXXIII.--Mozart's Pianoforte Music............441 VOL. II. CHAPTER XVIII. FRENCH OPERA. MOZART and his mother left Mannheim on March 14, and arrived in Paris on the 23rd, after a journey of nine days and a-half. "We thought we should never get through it," writes Wolfgang (March 24, 1778),[1] "and I never in my life was so tired. You can imagine what it was to leave Mannheim and all our dear, good friends there, and to be obliged to exist for ten days without a single soul even to speak to. God be praised, however, we are now at our journey's end. I am in hopes that, with His help, all will go well. To-day we mean to take a fiacre and go to call on Grimm and Wendling. Early to-morrow I shall go to the Electoral Minister Herr von Sickingen, who is a great connoisseur and lover of music, and to whom I have letters of introduction from Herr von Gemmingen and Herr Cannabich." L. Mozart was full of hope concerning this visit to Paris, and believed that Wolfgang could not fail to gain fame and, as a consequence, money in the French capital. He remembered the brilliant reception which had been given to him and his children fourteen years before, and he was convinced that a like support would be accorded to the youth who had fulfilled his early promise to a degree that to an intelligent observer must appear even more wonderful than his precocious performances as a child. He counted upon the support and assistance of many distinguished and influential persons, whose favour they had already experienced, and more especially on the tried friendship of Grimm, who had formerly given them the benefit of all his knowledge and power, and with whom they had continued in connection ever since. Grimm had lately passed through Salzburg with two {FRENCH OPERA.} (2)