[Footnote 59: Kelly, Reminisc., I., p. 201. A performance of "Axur" is mentioned
(Jahrb. f. Tonk., 1796, p. 38). According to the Thematic Catalogue,
Mozart wrote a concluding chorus "fur Dilettanti," to Sarti's opera, "Le
Gelosie Vil-lane," on April 20, 1791.]
[Footnote 60: Dittersdorf, Selbstbiogr., pp. 7, 49.]
[Footnote 61: Gyrowetz, Selbstbiogr., p. 8.]
[Footnote 62: Cf. pp. 307, 627.]
[Footnote 63: C. Pichler, Denkw., I., p. 45.]
[Footnote 64: Mozart's concert harpsichord is now in the Mozarteum at Salzburg,
a little instrument by Anton Welter, in a walnut-wood case with black
naturals and white flats and sharps. It has five octaves, is light in
touch, and tolerably powerful in tone.]
[Footnote 65: Cramer's Mag. d. Musik, II., p. 1380.]
[Footnote 66: Kelly, Reminisc., I., p. 226.]
[Footnote 67: Mozart's printed composition only extended during his lifetime to
Op. 18 (Klavierconcert, 451 K., No. 13), without counting variations and
songs.]
[Footnote 68: Wien. Zeit., 1783, No. 5, Anh. These three concertos in A major
(414 K., No 10), F major (413 K., No. 12), and C major (414 K., No. 5),
were then printed in Vienna as Ouvre IV.]
[Footnote 69: A. M. Z., I., p. 113.]
[Footnote 70: Wien. Ztg., 1788, No. 27, Anh.]
[Footnote 71: N. Berl. Musikzeitg., 1856, p. 35.]
[Footnote 72: A. M. Z., I., p. 289.]
[Footnote 73: Rochlitz's account (A. M. Z., IM p. 83) does not tally.]
[Footnote 74: Cf. Nissen, p. 633.]
[Footnote 75: Rochlitz, A. M. Z., XV., p. 313. Für Freunde der Tonkunst, I., p.
148.]
[Footnote 76: Endorsed by Hoffmeister: "Den 20 Nov., 1785, mit 2 Duka ten."
N.Ztschr. Mus., IX., p. 164.]
[Footnote 77: A. M. Z., I., p. 547.]
[Footnote 78: A. M. Z., I., p. 83; cf. p. 147. Nissen, p. 548.]
[Footnote 79: Neue Zeitschr. Mus., XII., p. 180.]
[Footnote 80: Dittersdorf says that the profits from his benefit performance
of the "Doktor and Apotheker" amounted to 200 ducats (Selbstbiogr., p.
243).]
[Footnote 81: Rochlitz's account is confused and uncertain. (Für Freunde d.
Tonk., II., p. 258., II).]
[Footnote 82: He expected a gift from the Prussian Ambassador; whether he
received it, or what it was, is not known.]
[Footnote 83: Count Seeau must have sold for his own profit the pieces which were
only purchased for representation; Schroder and Beecké complain of this
in unpublished letters to Dalberg.]
[Footnote 84: Nissen, p. 475.]
[Footnote 85: He was called a "Niederlagsverwandter," that is, he belonged to the
privileged society of merchants, for the most part Protestants, who had
the right, subject to certain restrictions, of keeping warehouses and
trading wholesale (Nicolai, Reise, IV., p. 447).]
[Footnote 86: Wiener Morgenpost, 1856, No. 28.]
[Footnote 87: Nissen, p. 686.]
[Footnote 88: O. Jahn, Aufs. üb. Musik., p. 234.]
[Footnote 89: Nissen, p. 683.]
[Footnote 90: Niemetschek, p. 57. Nissen, p. 580.]
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