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[ A. M. Z., I., p. 855; Nissen, p. 473.]
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[ Kelly, Reminisc., I., p. 258,]
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[ "From his childhood," says the article in Schlichtegroll's Nekrolog, "he preferred playing at night; he seated himself at the clavier at nine o'clock in the evening, and would remain at it until midnight, having to be forced away even then; otherwise he would have played through the whole night.">[
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[ So a contemporary asserts (Wien. Allg. Mus. Ztg., 1818, No. 3, p. 62). Rochlitz speaks of Mozart's humour as one of his special characteristics (A. M. Z., III., p. 590): "I have heard most of the distinguished performers on this instrument since Mozart, except Beethoven; the playing of many of them was admirable, but the inexhaustible wit of Mozart was never approached by any.">[
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[ N. Wien. Mus. Ztg., 1856, No. 25.]