FOOTNOTES:
[11] This manuscript book is preserved in the Mozart Museum at Salzburg, and beneath several of the pieces may be seen the notes made by the father at the time. For example, 'Wolfgang learnt this Minuet and Trio in half an hour, when he was five.' or 'Wolfgang learnt this Minuet when he was four.'
[12] 'Have mercy'—a psalm of supplication.
[13] The room and the stone table at which he worked are still shown to visitors at the Villa Bertramka, Koschirz.
[14] It was ascertained after Mozart's death that this personage was a certain Count Walsegg, who desired a Requiem to be performed in memory of his wife. The messenger was his steward. The reason for secrecy was that the Count intended to pass off the Requiem as his own composition, and in this he actually succeeded.
[15] Mozart died of malignant typhus fever.