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[ During Lent oratorios were performed in the theatres even at a later date. Goethe (Werke, XIX., p. 182) saw "The Destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar" in Naples. Cf. Dittersdorfs Lebensbeschreibung, p. 144. Teutsch. Mercur, 1789, III., p. 218.]
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[ Hiller, Wöchentl. Nachr., I., p. 47. Burney, Reise, I., p. 276. At Vienna oratorios were regularly performed in the Imperial Chapel, and afterwards in the theatre, for charitable objects.]
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[ It was first brought out at Vienna in 1734, with music by Reutter; afterwards composed by Flor. Gassmann (Dittersdorfs Selbstbiogr., p. 203), and partially adapted by Salieri in 1821 (Wiener mus. Ztg., V., p. 294). It was also composed by Jomelli, Cafaro, Bernasconi in Munich, 1754, Sales in Coblenz, 1783, Schuster and Naumann in Dresden (Reichardt, Berl. mus. Ztg., I., p. 171), and by Mussini in Berlin (Ibid., II., p. 39), &c.]
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[ Scheibe, Krit. Musi eus, 22, p. 216.]
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[ André informs me that, according to a book of words with which I am unacquainted, this oratorio was performed in Lent of 1786 (not at Vienna, as Sonnleithner inferred), and Mozart appears to have composed another introductory chorus, "Qual fiero caso," and a quintet, "Te solo adoro," which André conjectures to be in Berlin; they have not been found, however (Nohl, Musiker-briefe, pp. 335, 337)]