It is not probable that Mozart obtained any share of the rich profits
which accrued from the production of his opera on these various stages.
He was even cheated out of the production of a clavier score. "Now it
has come to pass exactly as I foretold to my son," wrote L. Mozart to
his daughter (December 16, 1785); "the 'Entführung aus dem Serail' has
appeared in clavier score at Augsburg, and has also been printed at
Mayence. Since March, when he began it, my son has not found time to
finish it. He has lost his time, and Torricella (who was to publish it
at Vienna) his profits."[68]
FOOTNOTES OF CHAPTER XXIV.
[Footnote 1: He wrote to Breitkopf (August 10, 1781): "My son is no longer in the
service of this court. He was summoned to Vienna by our Prince, who
was there, we being in Munich. But his highness lost no opportunity of
insulting and ill-treating my son, who, on the other hand, received much
honour from all the high nobility of Vienna. My son was therefore easily
persuaded to forsake his ill-rewarded service, and to remain in Vienna."]
[Footnote 2: Jahrb. d. Tonkunst, 1796, p. 51.]
[Footnote 3: Devrient, Gesch. der Deutsch. Schauspielkunst, III., p. 117.]
[Footnote 4: Cf. Sonnenfels' programme of his theatrical management in the year
1770, in Müller's Abschied von der Bühne, p. 73.]
[Footnote 5: Muller, Abschied, p. 79. Lange, Selbstbiogr., p. 25.]
[Footnote 6: Lange, Selbstbiogr., p. 65. Meyer, C. Schröder, I., p. 361.]
[Footnote 7: Müller, Abschied, p. 95. A. M. Z., XXIV., p. 253.]
[Footnote 8: Carl Pichler, Denkwürdigkeiten, I., p. 78.]
[Footnote 9: Meyer, I., pp. 361, 375.]
[Footnote 10: A survey and account of the Vienna stage of the time will be found
in K. R[isbeck], Briefe über Deutschland, I., p. 258. Nicolai, Reise,
IV., p. 587. Meyer, C. Schroder, I., p. 355.]
[Footnote 11: An accurate account of the state of German opera is given by
Muller (Abschied von der Bühne, p. 253). Cf. A. M. Z., XXIV., p. 254. K.
R[isbeck] (Briefe über Deutschland, I., p. 269) says that the members
of the opera were looked down upon by those of the old comedy, and there
were almost daily ridiculous displays of jealousy and ill-nature.]
[Footnote 12: Forkel, Musik. Krit. Bibl., II., p. 392.]
[Footnote 13: Sonnleithner, Recensionen, 1862, No. II., p. 18.]
[Footnote 14: Lange, Selbstbiogr., p. 104. Muller, Abschied, pp. 259, 261.]
[Footnote 15: Theaterkal., 1781, p. 183.]
[Footnote 16: Müller, Abschied, pp. 181, 189, 194.]
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