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[ Cf. Kossmaly to Ulibicheff, Mozarts Opern, p. 368.]
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[ This exquisite touch is completely lost in the German translation, where the Countess only begins to dictate after the ritornello.]
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[ A writer in the Deutsch. Mus. Ztg., 1862, p. 253, conjectures that an orchestral piece in D minor (101, Anh., K.) included among Mozart's remains, but unfortunately lost, may have been this middle movement.]
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[ The Emperor Joseph's remark has been already mentioned. Carpani (Le Haydine, p. 49; cf. p. 35) is of the same opinion. Grétiy's shrewd criticism in answer to a question by Napoleon: "Cimarosa met la statue sur le théätre et le piédestal dans l'orchestre; au lieu que Mozart met la statue dans l'orchestre et le piédestal sur le théätre," has been justly praised by Fétis (Biogr. Univ., IV., p. 106).]
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[ Carpani, Le Haydine, p. 202. Beyle, Vies de Haydn, Mozart et de Métastase, p. 362. Stendsal, Vie de Rossini, p. 40.]