[Footnote 4: She wished to perfect herself in playing for some years longer, and then go to Paris and "make her fortune." Cramers Magazin der Musik says (1787, II., p. 1274), "Madame Aurnhammer is an excellent teacher of the piano, on which she gives lessons; I have not heard her play for long. It is she who superintended the engraving by Herr Artaria of many of Mozart's sonatas and varied airs." She attempted variations herself, which she used to play at her concerts and to have printed (Mus. Corresp., 1791, p. 362; 1792, p. 195). She had arrived at Opus 63 in 1799 (A. M. Z., II., p. 90).] [Footnote 5: Da Ponte, Mem., II., p. 104.] [Footnote 6: Cf. I., p. 389. Winter was avowedly hostile to Mozart (Biedenfeld, Kom. Oper, p. 86); he used to reproach him with stealing from Handel (A. M. Z., XXVIII., p. 468), with forcing up soprano voices (Biedenfeld, Kom. Oper, p. 212); and his scorn at piano-playing opera composers (A. M. Z., XXVIII., p. 467) was especially directed against Mozart. It is generally acknowledged that Winter was not the simple, unsophisticated being that he appeared (cf. Biedenfeld, p. 212), and I have been assured by those who knew him well that he was quite capable of spiteful intrigue.] [Footnote 7: A striking instance is Salieri's account of how Joseph II. assisted him to marry (Mosel, Salieri, p. 57).] [Footnote 8: Hiller, Wochentl. Nachr., I., p. 100.] [Footnote 9: L. Mozart writes to the Baroness (September 13, 1782): "I am heartily glad that his wife does not take after the Webers, as otherwise he would be miserable; your ladyship assures me that she is a deserving person, and that suffices me" (Hamburg. Litter, u. Krit. Blatter, 1856, No. 72, p. 563).] [Footnote 10: During the supper, according to Nissen, a "sixteen-part harmony" of his own composition was performed as a surprise to him. This must be a mistake, for even the great serenata (361 K.) is only in thirteen parts.] CHAPTER XXVII. MARRIED LIFE. THE newly married couple began their housekeeping upon an uncertain and barely sufficing income, {MARRIED LIFE.} (264) and so it remained to the end. Limited means, sometimes even actual want, failed either to increase the carefulness or to damp the spirits of husband or wife.