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[ So also says the Joum. d. Lux. u. d. Mode, 1808, II., p. 803.]
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[ Mus. Wochenbl., p. 94.]
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[ A contemporary musician (Salieri must be meant) did not scruple to say to his acquaintance: "It is a pity to lose so great a genius, but a good thing for us that he is dead. For if he had lived much longer, we should not have earned a crust of bread by our compositions" (Niemetschek, p. 81).]
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[ Monatsschr., 1857, p. 446. Schikaneder was not present; the news of Mozart's death had affected him most deeply; he walked up and down, crying out: "His spirit follows me everywhere; he is ever before my eyes!" (Nissen, p. 572).]
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[ Wiener Morgen-Post, 1856, No. 28.]