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[ It is not without purpose that they are made to accompany Tamino's words, "Der Lieb' und Tugend Heiligthum" in the recitative of the first finale where Mozart first selected flutes, but then changed to clarinets, which only recur in this place.]
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[ This is pointed out in an article on the characteristics of different keys (A. M. ZM XXVII., p. 228).]
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[ The last words which Mozart wrote to his wife at Baden contained an allusion to this terzet: "Die Stunde schlägt—leb wohl—wir sehen uns wieder.">[
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[ Mozart, as an ear-witness noted (A. M. Z., XVII., p. 571), accented the first quaver of this figure, and took the tempo of the terzet almost as quick as it has since been played, following the direction andante moderato. In Mozart, as in other older composers, andante ("going") by no means exclusively implies a slow tempo.]
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[ Siebigke gives an elaborate analysis of this terzet (Mozart, p. 38).]