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sections of the ensemble, but it appears from Mozart’s afternoon hosting of the Bölzelschießen
that the upcoming performance was not a constant preoccupation.
Three days later, Nannerl recorded, “den 25 ten [recte 26 ten ] 124 zu st peter in amt mein
bruder sein amt gemacht worden. die ganze hofmusik war dabeÿ. Nachmittag Hagenauer
bestgeber, Catherl gewohnen. tomasellj, ceccarellj, hermesin in capucinerberg in beurlauben
beÿ uns. Bologna mit uns in der comedie. auf dem abend geregnet.” 125 Nannerl’s terse
presentation of the day’s events may be frustrating in its lack of information about the
performance, but her style here is entirely consistent with the rest of the diary. As the
surviving pages contain entries and annotations by both Leopold and Wolfgang, it was
clearly not an entirely private document, and as such was not an appropriate vehicle for
Nannerl to record her own thoughts in any detail. 126
It is difficult to believe that the St. Peter’s musicians would have been permitted to
use the Kapellhaus unless the Hofkapelle were involved in some capacity, so Nannerl’s
reference to the “ganze Hofmusik” being “dabeÿ” implies not merely its attendance but also
participation. 127 In the 1783 Hofkalender, 26 October was not listed among the Hof- und
Kirchen-Feste, so there was less potential conflict with the Hofkapelle’s duties at the Cathedral
the same morning. 128 There was precedent for the Hofkapelle and St. Peter’s ensembles
124 th th The previous entry is also noted at the 25 , and the following as the 27 , so October 26 was clearly
intended.
125 MBA, iii.290.
126 pace Solomon, who sees these “laconic” entries as emblematic of “the levelling of all events in the ebb and
flow of Salzburg quotidian life.” Solomon’s mistranslation of the following day’s entry turns the tenor
Michelangelo Bologna into a foodstuff: “Afternoon, papa, I, Gretl, and Henry ate bologna at Bird Inn in
Gnigl.” Maynard Solomon, Mozart: A Life (London: Hutchinson, 1995), 272.
127 Croll states that the monthly total of Trinkgelder at St. Peter’s in October 1783 was “eine rund doppelt so
hohe Summe als sonst üblich”; Gerhard Croll, “Zwei Mozart-Messen in der Stiftskirche St. Peter,” in Das
Benediktinerstift St. Peter in Salzburg zur Zeit Mozarts, ed. Petrus Eder and Gerhard Walterskirchen (Salzburg:
Verlag St. Peter, 1991), 138. Croll provides no figures to support this assertion, and the suggested association of
the payments with the Hofkapelle is not verifiable since the abbot directed funds to a wide variety of recipients;
P. Petrus Eder, personal communication.
128 Franz Mehofer, Hochfürstlich=Salzburgischer Hofkalender, oder Schematismus auf das Jahr...1783 (Salzburg:
Franz Prodiger, 1783).
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