[Footnote 8: Reichardt (Briefe eines aufmerks. Reisenden, I., p. 116) includes
him among the best pianoforte-players of the time (1773): "who, besides
a very good execution of Bach's music, has a particularly elegant and
brilliant style."]
[Footnote 9: She was born in Prague in 1756, and died there at an advanced age.]
[Footnote 10: Schiller, Briefw. m. Körner, I., p. 280. She had given a concert in
Leipzig on April 22 (Busby, Gesch. d. Mus., II., p. 668.)]
[Footnote 11: We learn from L. Mozart's letters to his daughter, that Count
Clamm, "a fine, handsome, amiable man, without cavalier pride," was the
"declared lover" of Frau Duschek, and "kept her whole establishment."]
[Footnote 12: Schiller, Briefw. m. Körner, I., p. 294.]
[Footnote 13: Schletterer, Reichardt, I., p. 134.]
[Footnote 14: Reichardt, Vertr. Briefe, I., p. 132.]
[Footnote 15: Niemetschek, p. 34.]
[Footnote 16: The violins were trebled, the violas and basses doubled (A. M. Z.,
II., p. 522).]
[Footnote 17: Niemetschek, p. 39. Holmes says (p. 278) that he heard the same
remark made by the first bassoonist after a performance of "Figaro."]
[Footnote 18: Niemetschek, p. 40.]
[Footnote 19: Every "Teutsche" has its "Alternativo," and they are united into a
connected whole, as Mozart especially remarks in a description of them.
The close is formed by a somewhat lengthy coda, and they are for the
most part lightly thrown together, with no pretension but to incite to
the dance. He remarks at the end, "As I do not know of what kind the
Flauto piccolo is, I have put it in the natural key; it can at any time
be transposed." A pianoforte arrangement in Mozart's handwriting is in
André's collection.]
[Footnote 20: Niemetschek, p. 96. 1]
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MOZART 38
BY DAVID WIDGER
CHAPTER XXXVIII. "DON GIOVANNI."
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