spoke, and promised to undertake it. We agreed that I should call
on him the next morning for the answer; accordingly I went; this
was on the 13th. He was very polite, but said that as yet he
could not say anything decided. I played there again for an hour,
and he invited me next day, the 14th, to dinner. In the forenoon
he sent to beg that I would come to him at eleven o'clock, and
bring some pieces with me, as he had asked some of the
professional musicians, and they intended to have some music. I
immediately sent some music, and went myself at eleven, when,
with many lame excuses, he coolly said, "By the by, I could do
nothing about the concert; oh, I was in such a rage yesterday on
your account. The patrician members of the Casino said that their
cashbox was at a very low ebb, and that you were not the kind of
virtuoso who could expect a souverain d'or." I merely smiled, and
said, "I quite agree with them." N. B.--He is Intendant of Music
in the Casino, and the old father a magistrate! but I cared very
little about it. We sat down to dinner; the old gentleman also
dined up-stairs with us, and was very civil, but did not say a
word about the concert. After dinner I played two concertos,
something out of my head, and then a trio of Hafeneder's on the
violin. I would gladly have played more, but I was so badly
accompanied that it gave me the colic. He said to me, good-
naturedly, "Don't let us part company to-day; go to the play with
us, and return here to supper." We were all very merry. When we
came back from the theatre, I played again till we went to
supper. Young Langenmantl had already questioned me in the
forenoon about my cross, [Footnote: Mozart, by his father's
desire, wore the "Order of the Golden Spur," conferred on him by
the Pope.] and I told him exactly how I got it, and what it was.
He and his brother-in-law said over and over again, "Let us order