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[ [Goudard] Le Brigandage de la Musique Italienne (Amsterdam, 1780) is directed against Italian musicians, but includes in this category "Le GÉnÉral Gluck et son Lieutenant-GÉnÉral Piccinni et tous les autres noms en ini."]

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[ Histoire du ThÉÄtre de l'OpÉra en France, I., p. 164. FÉtis, Curios. Hist, de la Mus., p. 325. Burney gives a detailed account of a "Concert Spirituel" at which he was present in 1770 (Reise, I., p. n).]

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[ Nothing is known of this music, so far as I am aware; Mozart does not seem to have kept it himself, and therefore did not bring it to Salzburg.]

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[ This Sinfonie Concertante is lost beyond recovery. Mozart sold it to Le Gros, and kept no copy; he must have thought he could write it again from memory; but apparently cared the less to do so as there were no virtuosi in Salzburg able to perform the symphony.]

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[ L. de Lomenie, Beaumarchais, II., p. 89. Dutens, MÉm., II., p. 59. Madame du Deffand, Lettr., III., p. 172, 297.]

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[ Madame du Deffand, Lettr., IV., p. 107.]

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[ The Dauphin was born on December 11, 1778.]

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[ Madame de Genlis, MÉm., I., p. 288.]

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[ She married M. de Chartus (afterwards Duc de Castries) in the summer of 1778, with a dowry from the King, and died in childbirth (Madame du Deffand, Lettr., IV., p. 52).]

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[ Jos. Frank narrates in his Reminiscences (Prutz, Deutsch. Mus., II., p. 28):]

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[ The Duchesse de Chabot, daughter of Lord Stafford, mentioned as an acquaintance by Grimm and Madame Epinay (Galiani, Corr. inÉd., II., p. 305).]

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[ She was the daughter of the Duke of Orleans, sister to the then Duc de Chartres, the future EgalitÉ. A short time previously a duel, of which she was the occasion, between the Duc de Bourbon and the Comte d'Artois, had made a great stir (Du Deffand, Lettr., IV., p. 28. Grimm, Corr. Litt., X., p. 1.)]

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[ That is on his first visit to Paris. The Duchess entered a convent in her fifteenth year, and remained there several years (Genlis, MÉm., III., p. 84).]

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[ "Cf. Madame de Genlis, MÉm., I., p. 289; II., p. 185.]

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[ Grimm, Corr. Litt., IX., p. 174.]

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[ Noverre's ballet "Les Petits Riens" was given in June, 1778 (in Italian by Italian singers), and was praised by Grimm, but without mention of the music (Corr. Litt., X., p. 53). This composition has also been irrecoverably lost.]

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[ The imposing effect of the simultaneous attack of a fine orchestra was the occasion of this catchword. Raaff told Mozart of a piquant bon mot Ä propos of the term. He was asked by a Frenchman, at Munich or some other place: "Monsieur, vous avez ÉtÉ Ä Paris?" "Oui." "Est-ce que vous Étiez au Concert Spirituel?" "Oui." "Que dites-vous du premier coup d'archet? avez-vous entendu le premier coup d'archet?" "Oui, j'ai entendu le premier et le dernier." "Comment, le dernier? qui veut dire cela?" "Mais oui, le premier et le dernier, et le dernier mÊme m'a donnÉ plus de plaisir."]

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[ Mozart speaks in a later letter (September 11,1778) of two symphonies which had been much admired, and of which the last was performed on September 8. With this agrees his assertion (October 3, 1778) that he had sold to Le Gros two overtures (i.e., symphonies) and the Sinfonie Concertante. There are no further traces of this symphony.]

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[ Mozart has made considerable abbreviations in the first movement of this symphony, while working oat the score in the manner described above.]

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[ SÜddeutsche Mus. Ztg., 1857, No. 44, p. 175.]

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[ The father writes to Breitkopf (August 10,1781): "The six sonatas dedicated to the Elector Palatine were published by M. Sieber, in Paris. He paid my son for them fifteen louis neuf, thirty copies and a free dedication."]

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[ A fac-similÉ of the letter to Bullinger will be found at the end of the third volume.]

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[ MÉmoires et Correspondance de Madame d'Epinay (Paris, 1818). Cf. Grimm, Corr. Litt., XI.,? 468. Madame de Genlis, MÉm., III., p. 99. Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du Lundi, II., p. 146.]

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[ Grimm's letter to L. Mozart, which the latter forwarded to his son (August 13, 1778), runs as follows: "Il est zu treuherzig, peu actif, trop aisÉ Ä attraper, trop peu occupÉ des moyens qui peuvent conduire Ä la fortune. Ici, pour percer, il faut Être retors, entreprenant, audacieux. Je lui voudrais pour sa fortune la moitiÉ moins de talent et le double plus d'entregent, et je n'en serais pas embarrassÉ. Au reste, il ne peut tenter ici que deux chemins pour se faire un sort. Le premier est de donner des leÇons de clavecin; mais sans compter qu'on n'a des Écoliers qu'avec beaucoup d'activitÉ et mÊme de charlatanerie, je ne sais s'il aurait assez de santÉ pour soutenir ce mÉtier, car c'est une chose trÈs fatiguante de courir les quatre coins de Paris et de s'Épuiser Ä parler pour montres. Et puis ce mÉtier ne lui plaÎt pas, parcequ'il l'empÊchera d'Écrire, ce qu'il aime par-dessus tout. Il pourrait donc s'y livrer tout Ä fait; mais en ce pays ici le gros du public ne se connaÎt pas en musique. On donne par consÉquent tout aux noms, et le mÉrite de l'ouvrage ne peut Être jugÉ que par un trÈs petit nombre. Le public est dans ce moment si ridiculement partagÉ entre Piccinni et Gluck que tous les raisonnements qu'on entend sur la musique font pitiÉ. Il est donc trÈs difficile pour votre fils pour rÉuissir entre ces deux partis. Vous voyez, mon cher maÎtre, que dans un pays oÙ tant de musiciens mÉdiocres et dÉtestables mÊme ont fait des fortunes immenses, je crains fort que M. votre fils ne se tire pas seulement d'affaire."]

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[ Cf. the account 'by Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du Lundi, VII., p. 226; II., p. 158.]

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[ Merck, Briefe, II., p. 282.]

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[ Madame de Genlis, MÈm., IV., p. 3.]

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[ Jacobs, in Hoffmann's Lebensbilder ber. Humanisten, p. 15.]

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[ Grimm, Corr. Litt., X., pp. 37, 112, 162. La Harpe, Corr. Litt., II., p. 249.]

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[ Grimm, Corr. Litt., X., p. 52.]

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[ Prutz, Deutsches Museum, II., p. 28.]

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[ Both the father and son, especially the former, follow closely the course of political and military events, and communicate them to each other.]

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[ The Archbishop's sister, Marie Franziska (b. 1746), who had married Oliver, Count von Wallis, had a residence assigned her in the archiÉpiscopal palace, and kept up a sort of regal state.]

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[ Grimm, Corr. Litt., X., p. 236.]

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[ There were two Marshals of the name, the Duke and the Count de Noailles: I do not know which of the two is here meant. The first was the father of the Countess de TessÉ, Mozart's early patroness (Vol. I., p. 35), and, like her, was interested in literature and art (Lomenie, Beaumarchais, I., p. 206).]

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[ Tenducci must have taken this composition with him to London. Burney (Barrington's Miscellanies, p. 289) praises it as a masterpiece of invention and technical execution (Pohl, Mozart und Haydn in London, p. 121).]

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[ Anton Paris was the third court organist in Salzburg.]

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[ The heir-apparent, afterwards King Max I.]

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[ Aloysia received a salary of 1,000 florins, her father 400 florins, together with 200 florins as prompter, as Mozart afterwards learnt at Mannheim.]

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[ He hoped to sell his three pianoforte concertos (238, 246, 271, K.) to the engraver of his sonatas for ready money, and if possible his six difficult piano sonatas (279-284 K.). Whether he succeeded or not I do not know, but they do not seem to have been engraved. His father advised him to insure his connection with the Parisian publishers for the future. In a letter to Breitkopf (August xo, 1781), he mentions Trois airs variÉs pour le clavecin ou fortepiano, engraved by Heyna, in Paris. These are the variations on Fischer's Minuet (179 K.); on an air from Salieri's "Fiera di Venezia," "Mio caro Adone" (180 K.), mentioned in a letter to his father (December 28,1778); and on "Je suis Lindor," from Beaumarchais' "Barbier de Seville" (354 K.).]