Mozart: A Life in Letters: A Life in Letters (82 page)

8.
Father Aemilian Angermayr (1735-1803), professor of theology.

1.
31 October.

1.
At his Augsburg concert of 22 October 1777, Mozart played an unidentified symphony, the concerto for three pianos K242, the solo sonata K284, the solo concerto K238, and an improvisation consisting of a fugue and sonata.

2.
Christian Cannabich (1731-98), composer, violinist and Kapellmeister at Mannheim and Schwetzingen (the elector’s summer residence). When the Palatinate and Bavarian courts merged in 1778 he moved to Munich.

3.
Rosina Theresia Petronella (1764–?1808), known as Rosa. The sonata is K309.

4.
Christian Franz Danner (1757#8211;1813), violinist in the Mannheim court orchestra.

5.
The oboist was Friedrich Ramm (1744–
c
. 1811); a child prodigy, he had joined the Mannheim court music as a fourteen-year-old. Mozart presented him with K314, composed in Salzburg in 1777.

6.
K279-284.

7.
Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer (1711-83), composer and court music director at Mannheim; Louis Aurel, Count Savioli (?–1788), court music intendant.

8.
Karl Theodor (1724-99), Elector Palatine and from 1778 Elector of Bavaria.

9.
In July 1763, see letter 5.

10.
Mozart refers to Colloredo’s reforms of the Mass, see letter 48.

11.
Georg Joseph Vogler (1749-1814), composer and writer on music, second Kapellmeister at Mannheim.

12.
Ignaz Holzbauer’s
Günther von Schwarzburg
, composed to celebrate the elector’s name day on 4 November and first performed on 5 November 1777.

13.
Elisabeth Maria Aloysia Auguste (1721-94), wife of Elector Karl Theodor; Mozart dedicated the accompanied sonatas K301-306 to her.

14.
Carolina Josepha Philippine, Countess Bretzenheim (1768-86) was the eldest daughter of the elector with his mistress, the choreographer Josepha Seyffert.

15.
‘I kiss my father’s hands and embrace my sister tenderly and, in sending my best wishes to all and sundry, I remain with all my heart’.

16.
For the next shooting competition.

1.
Bartholomäus Christa (1714-78), abbot of Holy Cross, Augsburg.

2.
She had promised to send Mozart her portrait.

3.
Juliana and Josepha Freysinger, daughters of court councillor Franziskus Erasmus Freysinger, who had been at school with Leopold Mozart in Augsburg during the 1730s.

4.
Unidentified.

5.
Robert Spaethling notes in
Mozart’s Letters, Mozart’s Life
(London, 2000) that ‘333’ (German
drei drei drei
) could be a phonetic transcription of the Salzburg dialect
treu treu treu
, which also has the meaning ‘true, true, true’ – that is, ‘thrice faithful unto death’.

6.
Mozart writes the date in reverse but has it wrong; it should be 5th November 1777.

1.
For the elector’s name day celebrations.

2.
The music for the ballet was by Cannabich and the choreography by étienne Lauchéry, director of the court balls.

3.
6 November.

4.
None of the works performed by Mozart can be identified with certainty. It is likely, though, that the concerto was K175, 238, 246 or 271.

5.
They were all his natural (illegitimate) children.

6.
15 November.

7.
K309, written for Rosa Cannabich.

8.
‘Monsieur, I assure you, it’s impossible to play any better.’

9.
La finta giardiniera
.

10.
Carl August Friedrich Joseph, Count (later Prince) Bretzenheim (1769-1823).

11.
Johann Baptist Wendling (1723-97) and his daughter, the singer Elisabeth Augusta Wendling (1752-94).

1.
In a letter of 13 November Mozart reported to Leopold that for his performances at court Count Savioli had not given him money, which he would have preferred, but a watch.

2.
He had not.

3.
Leopold Heinrich Pfeil (1725/6-92) was a French teacher in Frankfurt; he had formerly been secretary to the father of the writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832).

4.
Friedrich Karl von Erthal (reigned 1774-1802), archbishop-elector of Mainz.

5.
Presumably Johann Adam Kreusser, concertmaster at Mainz, though his younger brother, the Kapellmeister Georg Anton Kreusser might be intended.

6.
Johann Franz Xaver Starck (?–1799), cathedral organist at Mainz.

7.
Friedrich Melchior von Grimm.

8.
Franz Lamotte (?1751–81), violinist.

9.
That is, the bishop of Chiemsee.

10.
Maximilian III Joseph.

11.
Contract.

12.
The performance of Holzbauer’s
Günther von Schwarzburg
.

13.
The tenor Anton Raaff (1714–97), who sang in this performance, was sixty-three years old.

1.
Dietrich Heinrich Schmalz (1720-97), banker.

2.
The seat of the princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein in western Bavaria.

3.
The brothers Joseph Maria Marcus and Jakob Philipp Bolongaro had founded a bank (and a tobacco dealership) in Frankfurt
c
. 1740.

4.
The archbishop-elector of Cologne at this time was Max Friedrich von Koönigsegg-Rothenfels (reigned 1761-84).

1.
Christian Cannabich and Georg Joseph Vogler.

2.
Count Savioli.

3.
Carl August.

4.
K179.

5.
Carolina.

6.
K284f, which is otherwise unknown.

7.
K309.

8.
A copy of this sonata, entirely in Leopold Mozart’s hand, is in private ownership in Switzerland.

1.
K26–31; see letter 12.

2.
Prince Karl Christian of Nassau-Weilburg (1735-88); his principality lay north of the river Main and east of the Rhine.

3.
Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach-Bürresheim (reigned 1763-74).

4.
Johann Rudolf, Count Czernin (1757–1845), nephew of Archbishop Colloredo.

5.
Michael Haydn.

6.
Anton Triendl (1721–96), Salzburg city councillor and son-in-law of Siegmund Haffner the elder.

1.
K309.

2.
Ferdinand Dejean (1731-97), physician and amateur musician who had been a surgeon with the Dutch East India Company from 1758-67.

3.
Anton Joseph Serrarius, privy councillor to the elector.

4.
Marie Antoinette had become queen of France on the accession of the dauphin as Louis XVI in 1774.

5.
Nothing came of Mozart’s plan although the fragmentary K322 apparently belongs to this time and may represent an aborted attempt by him to compose a mass for the elector.

6.
Thaddäus, Baron von Dürnitz (1756-1803), for whom Mozart wrote the piano sonata K284.

7.
The bishop of Chiemsee.

8.
Johann Gottlieb Pergmayr, Mozart’s godfather.

9.
Maria Clara Susanna Auer (b. 1742), daughter of the administrator of the cathedral chapter, Franz Christoph Auer.

1.
Wendling, the oboist Ramm and Georg Wenzel Ritter (1748–1808), bassoonist in the Mannheim court orchestra.

2.
Ferdinand Dejean.

1.
The cathedral organist Anton Adlgasser had died on 21 December 1777 while playing at Vespers. Franz Joseph, Count Starhemberg (1748-1819) was a canon at Salzburg cathedral.

2.
Johann Georg Hagenauer (1748-1835), court architect.

3.
Joseph Franz Anton, Count Auersperg, bishop of Gurk from 1772-83.

4.
Maximilian III Joseph died on 30 December 1777. He was the last of the junior branch of the Wittelsbach dynasty, rulers of Bavaria since the early fourteenth century, and was succeeded by his distant cousin, Elector Karl Theodor of the Palatinate, from the senior branch of the dynasty.

5.
Maximilian Franz Joseph, Count Berchem (d. 1777), intendant general of the electoral court.

6.
Attilio Regolo
by Carlo Monza (
c
. 1735-1801).

7.
Leopold Lamprecht (d. 1780), who had baptized Mozart.

8.
Michael Haydn.

9.
Franz Ignaz Lipp (1718-98), third court organist from 1754; he was Michael Haydn’s future father-in-law.

10.
26 December.

11.
Drama by Heinrich Ferdinand Möller (1745-98).

12.
Franz de Paula Deibl (?1698–1783), oboist.

1.
Presumably these are the flute quartets commissioned by Ferdinand Dejean.

1.
Paul Rothfischer (1746–85), violinist.

2.
From K279–284.

3.
Unidentified.

4.
Pietro Lugiati, who had befriended the Mozarts in Italy.

5.
The theatrical high season around the feast of the Ascension.

6.
Here Mozart refers also to Weber’s eldest daughter, Josepha. There were four sisters in all.

7.
Anna Lucia de Amicis; the arias are all from
Lucio Silla
; the bravura aria is ‘Ah, se il crudel’.

8.
Father Dagobert (Joseph Clemens Benedikt) Stamm (1724-?) was the brother of Maria Cäcilia Weber.

9.
Franz von Heufeld, director of German plays in Vienna 1773–5, had written to Leopold from Vienna on 23 January 1778 to say that the emperor was not about to engage a composer in light of the fact that both Antonio Salieri (1750-1825) and Gluck were already in his service and that he did not approve of Leopold’s idea to appeal directly to Joseph II; he recommended, instead, that Mozart compose a German opera and submit it to the court for consideration. Heufeld also declined to write a letter of recommendation to the queen of France. See Deutsch,
Documentary Biography
, 169–71.

1.
Paul Rothfischer (1746–85), violinist.

2.
From K279–284.

3.
Count Maximilian van Eyck, the Bavarian ambassador in Paris.

4.
At this point it had been decided that Mozart’s mother would return to Salzburg and that Wolfgang would go on to Paris. Leopold therefore had reasonable expectations that he might not see Wolfgang again.

5.
Leopold lists some twenty-five names including the writers Denis Diderot (1713-84), Voltaire and Madame d’´pinay (1726-83), the Duc de Chartres (1747-93) and other luminaries.

6.
Founded in 1725, it was the longest-standing independent concert series in Paris.

7.
K222.

8.
K358, composed late 1773 or early 1774, and K381, composed in the summer or fall of 1772.

9.
K179.

10.
Possibly the last movement of the sonata K309.

11.
Wife of Archbishop Colloredo’s personal physician, Silvester Barisani.