Note 53 — THIRD PERIOD. FROM NOVEMBER, 1813, TILL HIS DEATH, IN 1827. PART I.
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It was only three years before his death that Mozart obtained an allowance of 800 florins, which was paid out of the privy purse of the Emperor Joseph, whose favourite he moreover was. We see how nearly alike were the fortunes of those two great geniuses in this particular.