victory was won over routine and imbecility. Amidst all the
fatiguing process of copying and collating letters already so
familiar to me, these considerations moved me more vividly than
ever; and no work on the Maestro can ever bring them with such
force before the intelligent reader as this connected succession
of letters, containing his own details of his unwearied artistic
struggles and productions. May these letters, then, kindle fresh
zeal in our artists of the present day, both in youthful genius
and in laurel-crowned Maestri!--especially may they have the
happiest influence on those who devote themselves to that phase
of Art in which Mozart attained the highest renown!--may they
impart that energetic courage which is derived from the
experience that incessant efforts for the progress of Art and its
appliances enlarge the limits of human intellect, and can alone
insure an immortal crown!

LUDWIG NOHL.

MUNICH, October 1, 1864.



FIRST PART
ITALY, VIENNA, MUNICH.
1770 TO 1776.



PART I.