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[ Sonnenfels, Ges. Schr., V., p. 299.]
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[ One of Fracasso's songs was twice composed, so was the middle movement of another, and an inserted song for Ninetta.]
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[ In the beautiful aria for Polidoro, before described, a tedious passage was afterwards judiciously struck out by Mozart.]
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[ Nissen has incorrectly given the idea that "the well-known Dr. Messmer, the friend of the Mozarts," was the celebrated magnetiser of that name. Helfert (Die österr. Volkschule, I., p. 132.) identifies Mozart's Messmer, who became a member of the medical faculty in 1767. In 1773 his wife inherited a half share in a house on the Landstrasse, consistently with which L. Mozart writes to his wife from Vienna (August) that Fr. v. Messmer has come into considerable property since the death of her mother. A "young Herr. v. Messmer," a cousin, was director of the Normal School in 1773.]
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[ E. Schelle, Berl. Mus. Ztg. Echo, 1864, No. 38.]