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[ Kircher, Musurgia, I., p. 466. Weitzmann, Gesch. d. Klavierspiels, p. 214.]
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[ Rochlitz's assertion (A. M. Z., I., p. 115) that Mozart wrote a great deal in Handel's style that he did not publish, is unfounded.]
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[ It is observed in Reichardt's Musik. Zeitg., I., p. 200, that J. S. Bach was in advance of his age, and that long after his death his mantle had descended upon Mozart, who was the first thoroughly to admire and reverence the spirit of his art, and to reproduce it in his own works. Zelter also declares that Mozart is a truer successor of Seb. Bach than his son Philipp Emanuel or Joseph Haydn (Briefw., IV., p. 188); he recalls how the music of Seb. and Eman. Bach was at first unintelligible to him; how Haydn was blamed for having travestied what was intense earnest to them; and, finally, how Mozart appeared and gave the proper interpretation to all three (Briefw., II., p. 103).
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[ Rochlitz is mistaken in trying to discover a mixture of Bach's gloominess with Mozart's youthful fire in the latter's Salzburg compositions (A. M. Z., II., p. 642).]
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[ Beethoven wrote out this fugue in score; the autograph is in the possession of A. Artaria.]