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[ The heir-apparent, afterwards King Max I.]
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[ Aloysia received a salary of 1,000 florins, her father 400 florins, together with 200 florins as prompter, as Mozart afterwards learnt at Mannheim.]
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[ He hoped to sell his three pianoforte concertos (238, 246, 271, K.) to the engraver of his sonatas for ready money, and if possible his six difficult piano sonatas (279-284 K.). Whether he succeeded or not I do not know, but they do not seem to have been engraved. His father advised him to insure his connection with the Parisian publishers for the future. In a letter to Breitkopf (August xo, 1781), he mentions Trois airs variés pour le clavecin ou fortepiano, engraved by Heyna, in Paris. These are the variations on Fischer's Minuet (179 K.); on an air from Salieri's "Fiera di Venezia," "Mio caro Adone" (180 K.), mentioned in a letter to his father (December 28,1778); and on "Je suis Lindor," from Beaumarchais' "Barbier de Seville" (354 K.).]
FOOTNOTES OF CHAPTER XX.
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[ Dalberg's papers are preserved in the Royal Library at Munich. Koffka, Iffland u. Dalberg, p. 8.]