ce for the extemporised
cadenza), an Andante in F (Alberti bass from beginning to end), a
first and second Menuet, and an Allegro molto, of course, in C. The
brief dedication to Op. 1 is signed:--"Votre tres humble, tres
obeissant et tres petit Serviteur, J.G. Wolfgang Mozart."

[32] There is one exception: a sonata in G major, one of his earliest.
See chapter on Haydn and Mozart.

[33] Scheibe; a return for the moment to a practice which was once of
usual occurrence.

[34] Mention has been made in this chapter of a first section in a
minor piece of Scarlatti's ending in the _major_ key of the dominant.

[35] In the Sonatas of 1781, for instance, the first movement of No.
2, in F, has a definite second subject, but that is scarcely the case
with the first movement of No. 3, in F minor.

[36] This is the date given by Mattheson. In some dictionaries we find
1667; this, however, seems to be an error, for that would only make
Kuhnau fifteen years of age when he became candidate for the post of
organist of St. Thomas'. Fetis, who gives the later date (1667),
states that in 1684 Kuhnau became organist of St. Thomas', but adds:
"Quoiqu'il ne fut age que de dix-sept ans."

[37] This Kittel must surely have been father or uncle of Johann
Christian Kittel, Bach's last pupil.

[38] Mattheson, in his _Grundlage einer Ehren-Pforte_, published at
Hamburg in 1740, complains that the names of Salomon Kruegner,
Christian Kittel, A. Kuhnau, and Hering are not to be found in the
musical dictionaries. The first and third have not, even now, a place.

[39] In a letter written by Graupner to Mattheson, the former, after
mentioning that he studied the clavier and also composition under
Kuhnau, says:--"Weil ich mich auch bei Kuhnau, als Notist, von
selbsten ambot, u. eine gute Zeit fuer ihn schrieb, gab nur solches
gewuenschte Gelegenheit, viel gutes zu sehen, u. wo etwa ein Zweifel
enstund, um muendlichen Bericht zu bitten, wie dieses oder jenes zu
verstehen?" ("As I offered myself as copyist to Kuhnau, and wrote some
long time for him, such a wished-for opportunity enabled me to study
much good (music), and, whenever a doubt arose to learn by word of
mouth how this or that was to be understood.")

[40] In the _Dictionnaire de Musique_ by Bossard (2nd ed. 1705) no
mention is made under the article "Sonata" of one for the clavier, and
yet the above had been published ten years previously.

[41] See also next chapter.

[42] Nearl