95 ([return])
[ Auswahl denkw. Briefe von Wieland, II., p. 58.]
96 ([return])
[ Briefe an Merck, II., pp. 122, 124.]
97 ([return])
[ K. R[isbeck], Briefe über Deutschland, I., p. 340. Cf. Brandes, Selbstbio-graphie, II., p. 279.]
98 ([return])
[ In December, 1777, the Emperor commissioned Muller to engage Hartig as a tenor for Vienna, but the negotiations fell through (Müller, Abschied von der Bühne, p. 254); Mozart may have gained his information in this way.]
99 ([return])
[ In 1776 Count Kohary, who farmed the theatre, became insolvent, and the Emperor took the administration of it into his own hands. It became the national instead of the court theatre.]