Mozart: A Life in Letters: A Life in Letters (86 page)

2.
‘Vedrommi intorno’, from the first act.

3.
‘Eccoti in me, barbaro nume! il reo.’

4.
A dancer involved with the production of
Idomeneo
.

5.
‘Tutte nel cor vi sento’ and ‘Idol mio, se ritroso’. Elisabeth Augusta ‘Lisel’ Wendling (1746–86), who sang Elettra, was Wendling’s sister-in-law.

6.
‘Slow and steady wins the race.’

7.
Georg Eck was a horn player in Munich; his son, Friedrich Johannes (1767–1838), was a violinist.

1.
‘Sazio è destino al fine’.

2.
Karl Michael Esser (1737–
c
. 1795), violinist. Wolfgang had first met him in Mainz in August 1763.

3.
Josepha, Countess Paumgarten (1762–1817).

4.
In a letter of 15 December 1780 Leopold reported having received an aria text from Josepha Duschek that she hoped Mozart would set for her.

5.
In December 1776 Prokop Adalbert, Count Czernin (1726–77), the father of Johann Rudolf, Count Czernin, had arranged to pay Mozart 20 ducats a year for newly composed works. He is known to have visited Salzburg in summer 1775.

6.
K272,
Ah, lo previdi! – Deh, non varcar
.

7.
Pasquale Anfossi (1727–97), composer of more than 60 operas.

8.
Antonio Salieri, see List.

9.
Varesco.

1.
In a letter of 16 December, Mozart asked his father to send pills for Cannabich, who had put on weight and whom Mozart feared might develop gout.

2.
Lorenzo Quaglio (1730–1805), scenery designer.

3.
‘Neptune appears etc…. At the back of the stage Idomeneo is seen, struggling to clamber over some rocks etc.’

4.
‘I see amid the remnants of wrecked ships an unknown warrior on that beach.’

5.
‘no more of this’.

6.
‘tell me, friend, tell me where he is?’

7.
‘but whence?’

8.
‘what are you saying? Is he still alive?’

9.
‘where is that sweet face that will restore me to life?
Idomeneo
: But whence comes it that you nurture such loving tenderness for him?’

10.
‘why do your words so confuse me?
Idamante
: And I too feel’.

11.
‘Would that I might at least etc.’

12.
Here Leopold pokes fun at recognition scenes in popular
commedia dell’arte
theatre.

13.
‘
Idomeneo
: I need only one piece of advice. Listen. You know how fatal my sword was to the Trojans.
Arbace
: All is known to me etc.’

14.
‘a king is an unworthy ruler’.

15.
‘Your decision is unjust.’

16.
‘I hear you, Arbace’… ‘Medical help’.

17.
Johann Andreas Schachtner had provided a German translation of the text of
Idomeneo
, for publication with the libretto.

1.
Joseph II was now sole ruler of Austria following the death of Empress Maria Theresa the previous year.

2.
Franz Thaddäus von Kleinmayr (1733–1805), high court councillor in Salzburg; Johann Michael Bönike, secretary of the Salzburg consistory; Karl Joseph, Count Arco, see List. All three had accompanied Archbishop Colloredo to Vienna.

3.
Prince Dmitri Michailovich Galitzin (1721–93), Russian ambassador in Vienna.

4.
‘Hey, you must be here at seven o’clock this evening so we can go to Prince Galitzin’s together. Angerbauer will take us there. I replied: All right. But if I’m not there at seven on the dot, go ahead without me; there’s no point in waiting for me – I know where he lives and will be sure to be there.’ Brunetti and several other members of the Salzburg court music establishment had accompanied the archbishop to Vienna.

5.
Johann Gottlieb von Braun (?–1788).

6.
Maria Wilhelmine, Countess Thun-Hohenstein (1744–1800) was among Mozart’s earliest patrons in Vienna.

7.
Marie Karoline, Countess Rumbeke (1755–1812) was Mozart’s first piano student in Vienna. Her cousin, Johann Philipp, Count Cobenzl (1741–1800), was deputy state chancellor.

8.
Idomeneo
.

9.
The Tonkünstler-Sozietät, founded in 1771, gave concerts at Easter and Christmas.

10.
Joseph Starzer (1728–87), composer and one of the founders of the TonkünstlerSozietät.

11.
She later lent Mozart this instrument for his piano duel with Clementi, see letter 122.

12.
K354.

13.
The painter Rosa Hagenauer-Barducci. Leopold was anxious to obtain the portrait she had painted of his wife.

14.
The aria, commissioned by Countess Paumgarten, was
Misera, dove son! – Ah! Non son io che parlo
K369; the quartets are unidentified.

15.
For the composition of
Idomeneo
.

16.
Joseph Leutgeb (1732–1811), horn player at the Salzburg court.

17.
Ludwig Gottfried von Moll.

18.
Johann Michael von Auernhammer and his daughter Josepha Barbara, Mozart’s pupil, see List.

19.
Archbishop Colloredo’s father, the imperial vice-chancellor.

1.
At Prince Colloredo’s.

2.
The concerto rondeau for Brunetti, K 373; sonata K 379; the rondeau for Ceccarelli, K 374
A questo seno deh vieni – V Or che il cielo a me ti rende.

1.
Also at Prince Colloredo’s.

2.
Gottlieb Stephanie the younger (1741–1800), actor and playwright; the opera was
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
(‘The Abduction from the Seraglio’).

3.
Archbishop Colloredo’s sister.

4.
Heinrich Wilhelm Marchand (1769–
c
. 1812), son of Theobald Marchand (1746– 1800), theatre director in Munich, was lodging in Salzburg as Leopold Mozart’s pupil.

1.
Archbishop Colloredo.

2.
Maria Cäcilia Weber. The Weber family had moved to Vienna in 1997. After Fridolin’s death on 23 September 1779 she took in lodgers to supplement her income.

3.
Franz Schlauka (1743-1829), personal valet to the archbishop.

4.
Mozart at the time earned 450 florins.

5.
When he was in Vienna, Archbishop Colloredo lodged at the house of the Deutscher Ritter-Orden, now Singerstrasse 865.

6.
The Webers’ address.

1.
Here Mozart refers to the accompanied sonatas K296+376–380 and
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
. Apparently his plan to give a concert never materialized.

1.
Mozart writes here in response to a lost letter of Leopold’s.

2.
Die Entführung aus dem Serail

3.
See List for Count (later Prince) Orsini-Rosenberg and Baron van Swieten; Joseph von Sonnenfels (1733–1817), writer and academic.

4.
Here Mozart refers to
Idomeneo
.

5.
The librettist.

6.
Rosa Hagenauer-Barducci’s portrait of his mother. It is reproduced in Deutsch,
Bildern
, 33 (no. 39).

7.
‘I expressly got someone else to write the address on it as you never can tell.’

1.
Karl Joseph, Count Arco.

2.
i.e. as someone of no importance.

1.
In Vienna.

2.
Keyboard performance.

3.
Ceccarelli’s letter to Mozart is lost.

1.
K379; the concert was on 8 April 1781.

2.
See letter 106, n. 2.

3.
No details are known of this episode.

1.
His confrontation with Archbishop Colloredo.

2.
K296+376–380. The unfinished sonatas included some or all of K376, 377 and 380; K296 had been composed at Mannheim on 11 March 1778, K378 at Salzburg in 1779 or 1780; and K379 at Vienna by 7 April 1781 (see letter 106, n. 2).

3.
Nothing came of this plan.

4.
Friedrich Ludwig Schröder (1744–1816), actor.

5.
The actor Johann Baptist Bergopzoomer (1742–1804) was engaged at the Burg-theater from 1774 to 1782 and from 1791 to 1804.

6.
Ignaz Umlauf (1746–96), composer. His
Die Bergknappen
had been the first opera staged by Joseph II’s German National Theatre in 1778.

7.
In this sentence, ‘He’ refers to Bergopzoomer, ‘him’ to Schröder.

8.
Hanswurst character (see letter 15, n. 1).

1.
Leopold Anton Koželuch (1747–1818), composer, keyboard virtuoso and teacher to the nobility and court; he later became a music publisher.

2.
In a letter of 27 June 1781, Mozart had asked his father to send copies of his (unidentified) masses to Vienna.

3.
K247, K287, K334.

4.
Daniel Marchand (1770–?), younger brother of Heinrich Marchand, Leopold’s pupil.

5.
Marianne Boudet (1764–1835), actress at the Munich court.

6.
Diminutive of Heinrich.

7.
Mozart and his father apparently sent their letters through Peisser.

1.
Constanze Weber, Aloysia’s younger sister.

2.
Pleasure garden in Vienna recently opened up to the public by Joseph II.

3.
Countess Rumbeke.

4.
For the sonatas K296+376–380.

5.
The Artaria family, originally from the area around Lake Como, established an art dealership at Mainz in 1765 and Vienna in 1766; the firm began publishing music in Vienna in 1778.

6.
26 July.

7.
See letter 105, n. 7.

1.
‘Singt dem grossen Bassa Lieder’ from act 1, scene 6.

2.
Catarina Cavalieri (1755–1801), soprano and pupil (later mistress) of Antonio Salieri, sang the role of Konstanze.

3.
The tenor Valentin Adamberger (1740/43–1804) sang the role of Belmonte (Mozart also wrote the arias
Per pietè, non ricercate
K420 and
Misero! o sogno – Aura che intorno spiri
K431, the part of Herr Vogelsang in
Der Schauspieldirektor
K486 (1786) and the cantata
Die Maurerfreude
K471 for him).

4.
The bass Johann Ignaz Ludwig Fischer (1745–1825) sang the comic role of Osmin.

5.
Paris Ignaz, Count Wolkenstein und Trostburg, governor of Upper Austria.

6.
Archduchess Maria Elisabeth (1743–1808), sister of Joseph II, was abbess of the imperial and royal convent at Innsbruck.

7.
i.e. Count Wolkenstein und Trostburg.

8.
As above. It has been impossible to confirm the details of this anecdote.

1.
With the Auernhammers.

2.
‘bore’.

3.
‘annoyance’.