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[ F. H. Jacobi (Briefe, I., p. 273). Wieland writes to Merck (II., p. 116): "I must go to Mannheim, for I must and will have my fill of music once in my life, and when or where shall I have a better opportunity?" Klopstock, too, went to Mannheim chiefly on account of its music (Briefe an Merck, II., p. 51), and "they were anxious to satisfy his fastidious taste" (Schubart, Teutsche Chronik, 1775, p. 183).]
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[ Lord Fordyce declared, as Schubart relates (Aesthetik, p. 131), that Prussian tactics and Mannheim music placed Germany at the head of nations.]
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[ Schubart notes this as an advance (Teutsche Chronik, 1774, pp. 310, 360).]
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[ Cf. Pasqué, Goethe's Theaterleitung in Weimar, II., p. 353.]
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[ "Alceste:" a vaudeville in five acts. Leipz. Weidm., 1773.]