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[ Gemmingen's "Serairamis" was not, as far as I am aware, printed; and I know nothing further of Mozart's composition. We find on p. 137 of the Theaterkalender for 1779: "Mozart... Kapellmeister zu Salzburg; setzt an 'Semiramis,' einem musikalischen Drama des Frh. von Gemmingen"; which must be a private communication. In following years it is regularly included among Mozart's finished compositions, but I have found no notice of its performance nor any other mention of it except that Gerber includes it among Leopold Mozart's posthumous works, with "Bastien and Bastienne" and the "Verstellte Gärtnerin." I mention this only to illustrate the fact that many of Mozart's earlier works were ascribed to L. Mozart after his death. But "Semiramis" was undoubtedly Mozart's own composition. How it happened that it did not remain in his hands, and pass into André's possession with his papers, I cannot explain]
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[ A somewhat extraordinary musical enthusiast, Frh. von Boecldin, writes of Aloysia that she "performed marvels with her delicate throat," and that her voice resembled a Cremona violin, and her singing was more expressive and affecting than that of Mara (Beitr. zur Geschichte der Musik, p. 18).]
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[ So Nissen narrates (p. 415), and further informs us that Mozart came to Munich with black buttons on his red coat, after the French fashion of showing mourning. Aloysia does not seem to have liked this.]
FOOTNOTES OF CHAPTER XXI.
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[ The minuet movement in symphonies was not liked in Salzburg. The minuet of the Symphony in B flat major was written later (to judge by the handwriting) for a performance in Vienna, and appended on a separate leaf. Mozart began a minuet to the C major symphony, but only finished the first part, and crossed it out in the score. The effort not to make the symphony too long is evident throughout, and especially in the non-repetition of the first movement, although it is completely detached.]
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[ The first movement (Adagio, Allegro con spirito), the Andantino and the Finale are (not quite correctly) printed as an independent symphony. (Breit-kopf and Härtel, 7.)]