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[ The truth of this anecdote is vouched for by Niemetschek, who narrates it (p. 34). Napoleon is said to have received a similar answer from Cherubini, who certainly did not borrow it from Mozart (A. M. Z., XXXVI., p. 21; cf., II. P. 735).]
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[ Many instances are given in Lange's Selbstbiogr., p. 98 Müller, Abschied, p. 100; Meyer, L. Schröder, I., pp. 341, 343, 346.]
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[ It remained on the Vienna repertory until 1779. The German opera was quite extinguished in 1778; it was revived on September 23, 1801.]
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[ Even this sum appears to have been thought excessive; at least Schroder wrote to Dalberg (May 22, 1784): "Mozart received fifty ducats for the 'Entführung aus dem Serail'; he would compose no opera under this price." At a later time, one hundred ducats was the usual price for an opera (Ditters-dorf, Selbstbiogr., p. 241).]
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[ Cramer, Magazin der Musik, I., p. 99.]