[Footnote 7: On January 20, 1781, Klein submitted his opera "Kaiser Rudolf von Habsburg" to the Electoral German company; a short notice (Rhein. Beitr. z. Gelehrs., 1781, I., p. 383) gives it extraordinary praise. He afterwards turned the same subject into a tragedy with similar title, which appeared in 1787.] [Footnote 8: The letter was published in facsimile by Gassner (Zeitschr. f. Deutschlands Musikvereine, II., p. 161), and has often been printed.] [Footnote 9: The new German original operas which were performed were: 1785--"Die Dorfhandel," or "Bunt über Eck," by Rupprecht; "Die Dorfdeputirten," by Teyber. 1786--"Die glücklichen Jager," by Umlauf; "Der Alchymist," by Schuster; "Doctor und Apotheker," by Dittersdorf; "Robert und Hannchen," by Hanke; "Betrug und Aberglauben," by Dittersdorf; "Zemirens und Azors Ehestand," by Umlauf. 1787--"Die Liebe im Narrenhause," by Dittersdorf; "Das wüthende Heer," by Rupprecht; "Im Finstern ist nicht gut tappen," by Schenk; "Die Illumination," by Kürtzinger.] [Footnote 10: Wien. Ztg., 1786, No. 11. L. Schneider, Cäcilia, XXIV., p. 148. R. Hirsch, Mozart's "Schauspieldirector," Leipz., 1859.] [Footnote 11: "Der Schauspieldirector." Ein Gelegenheitsstück in einem Aufzuge. Wien, 1786. Printed, according to Schneider, in Stephanie's Vaudevilles.] [Footnote 12: Mosel, Salieri's Leben u. Werke, p. 90.] [Footnote 13: Wien. Ztg., 1786, No. 13 Anh.] [Footnote 14: Goethe, Tag-Vund Jahreshefte, 1791 (Werke, XXI., p. 12).] [Footnote 15: Goethe, Ital. Reise (Werke, XIX., p. 360).] [Footnote 16: A. M. Z., 1864, pp. 465, 649.] [Footnote 17: The text is printed in Diezmann's Goethe-Schiller-Museum, p. 15. Goethe can scarcely have had a greater share in it than the insertion of the songs "An dem schönsten Frûhlingsmorgen" and "Bei dem Glanz der Abendröthe" (Neues Verz. e. Goethe-Bibl., p. 37). The words of Mozart's pieces are only somewhat improved in unimportant particulars, being, as a whole, very poor and insipid.] [Footnote 18: Theaterbriefe von Goethe, p. 32.] [Footnote 19: Hirsch, Mozart's Schauspieldirector, p. 18.] [Footnote 20: Printed in the German Bühnenalmanach, 1861.] [Footnote 21: Besides the Bandlterzett (441 K., Vol. II., p. 362), and the air "Manner suchen stets zu naschen" (433 K., Vol. III., p. 44), the two songs "An Chloe" (524 K.) and "Die betrogene Welt" (474 K.) are also inserted.] [Footnote 22: Reichardt (A. M. Z., XV., p. 665. Schletterer, Reichardt, I., p. 324): "Opera buffa was at that time (1783) far better appointed there, and followed its own bent with far more earnestness and consistency than anywhere in Italy. The orchestra was also first-rate--full of fire and discretion." Cf. Musik. Wochenbl., p. 66. Car. Pichler, Denkw., I., p. 78.]