[Footnote 107: Frau Klein, of Vienna, Loibl's daughter, related this and many other characteristic traits from her childish remembrances to my friend Karajan.] [Footnote 108: Eckermann, Gespräche mit Goethe, III., p. 234, &c., especially p. 239.] [Footnote 109: a. M. z., I., p. 81.] [Footnote 110: Nissen, p. 673.] [Footnote 111: Nissen, p. 683.] [Footnote 112: This document, invaluable for the history of Mozart's compositions, leaving no doubt as to important points from the year 1784 onwards, has been published by André under the title, "W. A. Mozart's thematischer Catalog" (Offenbach, 1805, 1828). It is my authority for all assertions as to the date of his works, except where otherwise specified.] [Footnote 113: Niemetschek, p. 91. CHAPTER XXVIII. MOZART'S FAMILY AND FRIENDS. MOZART'S relations to his father, which had hitherto, one may say, filled his whole mental life to a most uncommon degree, {MOZART'S FAMILY AND FRIENDS.} (312) had been seriously affected by his marriage. It was not till after long opposition that Leopold Mozart voluntarily, although most unwillingly, gave his consent, and how deeply he was wounded will appear from the answer he made to a conciliatory letter addressed to him by the Baroness Waldstädten (August 23, 1783):-- I thank your ladyship most heartily for the interest you are pleased to take in my affairs, and more especially for your ladyship's extraordinary kindness in celebrating so handsomely my son's wedding-day.[1] When I was a young fellow I imagined that those were philosophers who spoke little, laughed seldom, and maintained a surly demeanour towards all the rest of mankind. But my own experience has now fully convinced me that I am myself a philosopher without knowing it; I have done my duty as a father--have made the clearest and most comprehensible statements in many letters--and I am convinced that he knows my painful circumstances, made doubly so by my advanced age and unworthy position in Salzburg--he knows that I am sacrificed {L. MOZART'S DISAPPOINTED HOPES.} (313) morally and physically by his behaviour--and there now remains no resource to me but to leave him (as he has so willed it) to himself, and to pray the Almighty to bestow my paternal blessing on him, and not to withdraw His Divine mercy. As to myself, I will endeavour to preserve what remains of my native cheerfulness, and still to hope for the best.[2]