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"We found Madame Sonnenberg, lodged in a small but clean room,
bed-ridden and quite blind. Hers is a complete decay of nature;
suffering no pain, she lies like one awaiting the stroke of
death, and will probably expire in her sleep.... Her voice was
scarcely above a whisper, so that I was forced to lean my face
close to hers to catch the sound. In the sitting-room still
remained the old clavichord, on which the brother and sister had
frequently played duets together; and on its desk were some pieces
of his composition, which were the last things his sister had
played over previous to her illness."
With becoming delicacy, the fruits of an English subscription were presented to her on her name-day, as a remembrance from some friends of her brother.
The bane of Mozart's fortunes was the patronage on which he was dependent. His father had got into the trammels of the Archbishop of Salzburg-a sordid, arrogant, and ignorant man, who saw Mozart's value in the eyes of others, though he could not himself estimate it, and would neither pay him nor part with him.
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