with which the pantomime was introduced by the actor Müller; it might have been better, Mozart thought, but he was satisfied with the acting: "I assure you we played very well," he informs his father (March 12,1783). Of the music for this pantomime thirteen numbers for stringed instruments in parts are preserved, the first violin written by Mozart (446 K.) It is, as may be imagined, very unpretending, as are also the briefly indicated situations; for instance: "Columbine is sad--Pantaloon makes love to her--she is angry--he is gay--she angry--he angry too." Another passion of Mozart's was billiard-playing; Kelly relates that he often played with Mozart, but never won a game.[97] He had a billiard-table in his own house, and played with his wife in case of need,[98] or even quite alone. This was certainly a luxury, though far from an unusual one in Vienna at that time, and it was occasioned not solely from love of the game,[99] but, as Holmes rightly remarks, from the care of the physicians for Mozart's health. In the spring of 1783 he was seized with cholera, which was raging as an epidemic,[100] and in the following summer he was again seriously ill, as Leopold Mozart informs his daughter (September 14, 1784):-- My son has been very ill in Vienna. He was very much overheated at Paesiello's new opera, "Il Reteodoro," and was obliged to go into the open air to look for the servant who had charge of his overcoat, because orders had been given that no servants should be admitted to the theatre by the ordinary entrance. This brought on rheumatic fever, which without careful attention might have turned to typhus. Wolfgang writes: "I have had raging colic every day for a fortnight at the same hour, accompanied by violent vomiting. My doctor, Herr Sigmund Barisani, was in the habit of visiting me almost daily even before this illness; he is very clever, and you will see that he will soon make himself a name." Barisani was the son of the Archbishop's physician at Salzburg, an intimate friend of the Mozart family. He was of it!" {MARRIED LIFE.} (306) distinguished in his profession, becoming later chief physician at the general hospital, and a warm friend and admirer of Mozart. A charming memorial of their friendship is preserved at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, in the form of some affectionate verses addressed to Mozart by Barisani, bearing date April 14, 1787. Underneath Mozart has written the following lines:-- To-day, September 3 of this same year, I was so unfortunate as to lose by death this noble-natured man, my dearest, best friend, and the saviour of my life. It is well with him! but with me--us--and all who knew him--it can never be well again, until we are so happy as to meet him in another world _never to part again._