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[ Schneider gives a criticism of Mozart as a song-writer (Das musikal. Lied, III., p. 282).]
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[ The news of the repulse of the Spaniards by the English at the siege of Gibraltar, in 1782, excited the greatest enthusiasm in Vienna, where sympathy was entirely on the side of the English. Mozart wrote to his father (October 19, 1782): "I have, indeed, heard the news of the English victory, to my great delight, for you know that I am an arch-Englishman!">[
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[ Wiener Realzeitg., 1782, p. 765. Retzer, Nachlese zu Sineds Liedern (Wien, 1784), p. 84.]
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[ Three songs (390-392 K.), date unknown, were, judging by the handwriting, composed early in the Vienna period, if not before Mozart left Salzburg.]
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[ Das Lied der Freiheit (506 K.) appeared in the Wiener Musenalmanach for 1786. Besides this, so far as I am aware, no songs of Mozart appeared in his lifetime, except the "Veilchen" (476 K.) and "Trennung und Wieder-vereinigung" (519 K.), with the title, "Zwei Deutsche Arien zum Singen beim Klavier in Musik gesetzt von Herr Kapellmeister Mozart" (Wien bei Artaria, 1790); perhaps, also, "An Chloë" (524 K.) and "Abendempfindung" (523 K.) (with the same title).]