[Footnote 16: The length to which the calumny went is shown by Suard (Mél. de Litt., II., p. 339): "J'ai entendu dire qu'il n'avait fait Ja 'Flute Enchantée' que pour plaire ä une femme de théätre dont il était devenu amoureux, et qui avait mis ses faveurs ä ce prix. On ajoute que son triomphe eut des suites bien cruelles, et qu'il en contracta une maladie incurable dont il mourut peu de temps après. Ce fait me parait peu vraisemblable: la 'Flûte Enchantée' n'est pas le dernier de ses opéras, et lorsqu'il l'a composée sa santé était déjä fort altérée."] [Footnote 17: Salieri was recommended by Gluck as a composer for the Grand-Opéra in Paris, in 1784, when he had himself refused to undertake the composition of "Les Danaides" (Mosel, Salieri, p. 77).] [Footnote 18: A book of exercises and letters in English was used by Mozart as an account book in 1784 (André, Vorr. zu Mozart's Themat.-Catalog., p. 3).] [Footnote 19: Hamburg. Litt. u. Krit. Blätt, 1856, No. 72, p. 563.] [Footnote 20: Kelly, Reminisc., I., p. 277. L. Mozart gives his daughter a long account of the English visitors who were invited to a State concert by the Archbishop, and very well received.] [Footnote 21: A Viennese correspondent of January 25, 1787, says (Cramer's Musik. Magaz., II., p. 1273): "Mozart left Vienna some weeks ago on a professional tour to Prague, Berlin, and, it is even said, to London. I hope that it will be productive both of pleasure and profit to him." And Leopold Mozart wrote to his daughter (January 12, 1787): "The report that your brother intends going to England is confirmed from Vienna, Prague, and Munich."] [Footnote 22: Niemetschek, p. 44. Rochlitz's account, founded on information from Mozart's widow (A. M. Z., I., p. 22), is confirmed by Nissen (p. 535).] [Footnote 23: A. M. Z., I., p. 291.] [Footnote 24: Rochlitz expressly states that the King repeated this conversation to various persons, among others to Mozart's widow, during her stay in Berlin, in February, 1796.] [Footnote 25: Mosel, Salieri, p. 132.] [Footnote 26: The story that after his return from Prague (September, 1791), as Nie-metschek has it (p. 36), or on his death-bed,as it is usually embellished, Mozart received his appointment as actual kapellmeister, with all its emoluments, is evidently unfounded. In the widow's petition for a pension (in the Mozarteum at Salzburg) only "the expected appointment to the post of cathedral kapellmeister" is mentioned, and in a magistrate's order of December 12,1791 (in the collection of Al. Fuchs), "Joh. Georg. Albrechtsberger, imperial court organist, appointed to the post of assistant kapellmeister at the metropolitan church of St. Stephan, as successor to the late Herr Mozart." Hoffman died in 1792, and then Albrechtsberger succeeded him.] [Footnote 27: Caroline Pichler, Denkwürd, I., p. 180.]