[Footnote 11: The representations of Aloysia's mother, which Mozart afterwards learned to receive with caution, may have had some influence on his judgment of Aloysia. The account given by her husband, Jos. Lange, is very different. He narrates in his autobiography (p. 116) that they conceived an attachment for each other soon after Aloysia's arrival in Vienna: "She had the misfortune to lose her father by a fit of apoplexy. Her inconsolable grief, and my care for her family, drew us closer together; my sympathy lightened her sorrowing heart, and she consented to marry me, hoping to find in her husband the friend she had lost in her father. As she had contributed to the support of her family by the exercise of her talent, she continued to make her mother an annual allowance of 700 gulden, and paid her an advance of 900 gulden which had been made to the family by the court."] CHAPTER XXIV. FIRST ATTEMPTS IN VIENNA. WHEN Mozart's withdrawal from the service of the Archbishop had become an established fact, the latter was anxious to show the world that it lay in his power to attract equally distinguished artists to his service, and he offered a salary of one thousand gulden to Leop. Kozeluch, who was considered the first clavier-player in Vienna, if he would come to Salzburg. Kozeluch refused, as Mozart wrote to his father (July 4, 1781), because he was better off in Vienna, and he had said to his friends: "The affair with Mozart is what chiefly alarms me; if he could let such a man as that leave him, what would become of me?" L. Mozart, much against his will, was obliged to reconcile himself to the step his son had taken.[1] He was full of {WORK IN VIENNA, 1781.} (187) anxiety, caused by his conviction of Wolfgang's incapacity in matters relating to his own advancement, by his fear lest he should not be able to withstand the seductions of the pleasure-loving capital, and also, perhaps, by an unconscious feeling of annoyance at his son's independent demeanour. This caused him to express his affectionate and really justifiable concern in so perverse a manner that, instead of lightening Wolfgang's difficult position, he embittered his life with reproaches and objections, which were generally exaggerated, and often entirely unreasonable; for he was weak enough to place easy faith in rumours and gossip. He had so long been accustomed to undertake the care of all Wolfgang's affairs that he could not bring himself quietly to resign all interference in them. Mozart did not allow himself to be over-persuaded; he held fast to his independence, as well as to his reverence and love for his father, whose reproofs and accusations he repeatedly disclaimed.