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[ Bridi, Brevi Notiz., p. 47.]
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[ The theme "Come un agnello" is from Sarti's opera, "Fra i Due Litiganti Il Terzo Gode," which was then the rage in Vienna, and is the same which is made use of in the second finale of "Don Giovanni.">[
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[ Sarti's "Esame acustico fatto sopra due frammenti di Mozart" has, as far as I know, never been printed; an extract was given in A. M. Z., XXXIV., p. 373 (cf. XXVI., p. 540).]
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[ According to a letter from Bonn of April 8, 1787 (Cramer's Magaz., II., p. 1,386) he was still in Bonn at that time, and returned home just before the death of his mother, on July 17, 1787.]
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[ Schindler (Biogr. Beethoven, I., p. 15) apparently did not know of this interview, which Beethoven was fond of alluding to; the above account was communicated to me in Vienna on good authority. The anecdote is embellished in Beethoven's Studien (Anh., p. 4), and alludes to studies in counterpoint and theory which Beethoven had not even attempted at the time. According to Ries (Biogr. Not., p. 86) he received a few lessons from Mozart, but never heard him play.]