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FOOTNOTES:
[22] The Symphony in D, performed from manuscript at the Crystal Palace, on February 5, 1881.
[23] The opera was never performed, and in 1848 the manuscript of the second act was accidentally destroyed by a servant who used it for lighting the fires.
[24] For the following extract from this letter the author expresses his acknowledgments to Sir G. Grove's 'Dictionary of Music and Musicians' (article 'Schubert'), in which the letter was for the first time published.
[25] His brother Carl, the landscape painter.
[26] His stepmother; the father had married again soon after the first wife's death.
[27] Of the 'Wanderer'—second only in popularity to the 'Erl King'—the publishers are said to have realised, since the time of its appearance up to the year 1861, the sum of 27,000 florins, or more than £1,100.
[28] Sir G. Grove, 'Dictionary of Music and Musicians.'