NOR do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What a delight this is, I cannot tell! all this inventing, this producing takes place in a pleasing lively dream. Still the actual hearing of the tout ensemble, is after all the best. What has been thus produced, I do not easily forget, and this is perhaps the best gift I have my Divine Maker to thank for.

But why my productions take from my hand that particular form and style that makes them Mozartish and different from the works of other composers, is probably owing to the same cause which renders my nose so, or so large, so aquiline, or, in short, makes it Mozart’s and different from those of other people. For I really do not study or aim at any originality; I should in fact not be able to describe in what mine consists.