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[ Lessing has some excellent observations on the relations of music to poetry in the continuation of his Laokoon (Werke, XI., p. 153).]
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[ Hiller, Wochentl. Nachr., I., p. 256. Lebensbeschreibungen, I., p. 312. Reichardt, Ueb. d. Com. Oper, p. 8.]
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[ He was perfectly aware that comic opera must follow its own laws. "You cannot imagine,'' he wrote to his father (June 16,1781), "that I should write an opéra comique in the same style as an opera seria. Just as in an opera seria there must be a display of much learning and good sense, and very little playfulness, so in an opera buffa there must be very little display of learning and a great deal of playful merriment. It cannot be helped if people will have comic music in an opera seria; but there is a great difference. I believe that buffoonery is not quite rooted out of music yet; and in this case the French are right.">[
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[ The autograph score of the "Entfùhrung" (384 K.), in three volumes (453 pages), was presented by Mozart to his sister-in-law, Madame Hofer, one evening when she had especially gratified him by her singing; it is now in the possession of Paul Mendelssohn-Bartholdv. of Berlin. Some of the odd sheets are in Andre's collection. Wolfgang writes to his father July 20, 1782: "You will find many erasures, because I knew that the score would be copied at once; so I let my ideas have free play, and made my alterations and abbreviations before sending it to the copyist.">[
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[ The ancients indicated this distinction by the terms pathos and ethos.]