His father having remarked that the matter might perhaps be arranged by the intervention of a lady or of some other person of rank, Mozart answered that this was not necessary: "I shall take counsel only of my good sense and my heart, and shall do what is right and proper." It was only with reluctance, and because he saw no other way of pacifying his father, that he consented to forego the threatening letter to Count Arco. FOOTNOTES OF CHAPTER XXIII. [Footnote 1: Nicolai, Reise, V., p. 231.] [Footnote 2: This rondo (373 K.) was composed, according to the autograph, on April 2, 1781, for Brunetti; it is in C major (allegretto grazioso 2-4,) accompanied by the quartet, two oboes, and two horns, and is simple and graceful without much demand of execution.] [Footnote 3: The unfinished allegro movement in B flat major (372 K.), begun on March 24, 1781, probably belongs to this sonata, which was not afterwards written down.] [Footnote 4: The words of the rondo (374 K., Concertarien, No. 5), "A questo seno," appear to have been taken from an opera called "Zeira." A short recitative introduces the rondo, of which the theme is thrice repeated and closes with a coda. The song is simple throughout, without any passages, and for a voice of moderate compass; the accompaniment (the quartet, two oboes and two horns) is also easy. It is plain that Ceccarelli was a singer of no pretensions. The cantilene, however, is expressive, and there are some original harmonic touches.] [Footnote 5: The mother of the composer, at that time prima donna at the German Theatre (Jahrb. d. Tonkunst, 1796, p. 69).] [Footnote 6: "The Imperial Councillor, Von Braun, is one of our greatest musical connoisseurs. He thinks very highly of the compositions of the great Ph. Emanuel Bach; and here he is opposed by the majority of the public in Vienna." (Nicolai, Reise, IV., p. 556.)] [Footnote 7: There was a chorus of 200 voices for Dittersdorf s "Esther," 1772 (Selbst-biogr., p. 203). K. R[isbeck] speaks of 400 assistants (Briefe, I., p. 276).] [Footnote 8: At his concert in Leipzig he played these variations again after an improvised fantasia (354 K.).] [Footnote 9: Neue Wien. Musikzeitg., 1852, No. 35.] [Footnote 10: So it had been promised (Vol. II., p. 65); but Mozart asserts repeatedly that he only had a salary of 400 florins (Vol. II., pp. 176, 181).]