How far his
being an _unappointed_ composer may have hastened the production
of his immortal works, is open to question; but that his life was
sacrificed in struggling against the difficulties in which he was
thereby involved, is beyond a doubt.
"In the absence of any immediate design of a new dramatic
composition, and delighted at the effect which his public
performance on the pianoforte had created at Vienna, Mozart forgot
all the fears he had expressed previously to his journey to Paris;
thought no more that teaching would interfere with the higher
vocation of his muse; and was content to become the fashionable
performer, teacher, and pianoforte composer of the day. This mode
of life for a time had its temptations and its success; and he
hoped that he might still better assist his father at Vienna than
at Salzburg, as he was at intervals able to remit to him sums of
from ten to thirty ducats.
