[Footnote 32: Clementi thought it advisable on the republication of this sonata to assert his prior claims, as follows: "Cette sonate, avec la toccata qui la suit, a été jouée par l'auteur devant Sa M. J. Joseph II., en 1781, Mozart étant présent." There can be no doubt that Mozart was conscious of the reminiscence.] [Footnote 33: Bridi's account says that the Emperor had laid a wager with the Grand Duchess that Mozart would surpass Clementi, and won it.] [Footnote 34: Paesiello composed sonatas and capricci for the Grand Duchess.] [Footnote 35: Dittersdorf, Selbstbiogr., p. 236.] [Footnote 36: This criticism belongs to the toccata rather than to the sonata; it is marked _prestissimo_, and is a brilliant study of passages in thirds and fourths.] [Footnote 37: The account which follows is founded on an accurate account of Joseph's chamber concerts (Musik. Corresp., 1790, p. 27).] [Footnote 38: Mosel, Salieri, p. 22.] [Footnote 39: Mosel, Ibid., p. 71.] [Footnote 40: A. M. Z., XXIV., p. 285.] [Footnote 41: The A. M. Z., XV., p. 512, narrates an apocryphal anecdote to the effect that the Emperor Joseph once wrote a song, and secretly inserted it in a little Italian opera which he gave in his private theatre at Schönbrunn. On his asking Mozart what he thought of the song, the latter, "with childlike frankness and gaiety," replied, "The song is good, but he that wrote it is better."] [Footnote 42: A. M. Z., XV., p. 66. Reichardt, Mus. Monatschr., 1792, p. 57.] [Footnote 43: A characteristic scene is related by Mosel (Salieri, p. 130).] [Footnote 44: Dittersdorf tells a story which illustrates this (Selbstbiogr., p. 241)] [Footnote 45: Reichardt, A. M. Z., XV., p. 667 (Schletterer, Reichardt, p. 325; Griesinger Biogr. Not. übcr Jos. Haydn, p. 63).] [Footnote 46: Besides Mosel's Biography cf. the account by Rochlitz (Für Freunde der Tonkunst, IV., p. 342; A. M. Z., XXVII., p. 412).] [Footnote 47: A. Hüttenbrenner, a pupil of Salieri, relates upon his authority (A. M. Z., XXVII., p. 797) that Mozart often came to Salieri, saying: "Lieber Papa (?) geben sie mir einige alte Partituren aus der Hofbibliothek (?), ich will sie bei Ihnen durchblättem," and that he often ate his midday meal during these studies.] [Footnote 48: Mosel (Salieri, p. 211) confines this to silence on the merits of Mozart's works. But although Salieri occasionally spoke in praise of Mozart in afteryears (Hüttenbrenner, A. M. Z., XXVII., p. 797; Rochlitz, Für Freunde der Tonkunst, IV., p. 345), I have heard upon trustworthy authority in Vienna, that Salieri, even in his old age, when among confidential friends, expressed, with a passion that was painful to his hearers, the most unjust judgments on Mozart's compositions. Thayer's attempt to justify Salieri (A. M. Z., 1865, p. 241) led me to make a searching examination of the facts.] [Footnote 49: K. R[isbeck], Briefe, I., p. 272.]