Schriftenreihe of the Institut Wiener Kreis by employing stories connected with Mozart leaving the employ of the Salzburg Court and establishing himself as free-lance musician in Vienna in 1781. He recalls for us the delightful episode with the critical remark of Emperor Josef to Mozart after the 1782 premiere of Die Entführung aus dem Serail: "Gewaltig viel Noten lieber Mozart!" (rendered as "Too Many Notes, my Dear Mozart" in Amadeus) to which Mozart replied "Gerade so viel, Eure Majestät, als nötig ist" ("just as many as are needed"). And with scholarly erudition, Blaukopf cites Mozart's early biographer Niemetschek on this episode who reported Mozart's enlightened reaction to this exchange as follows: "Mozart did not regard this as [the emperor's] independent judgment but as imitative chatter (nachgesagt)."" /> Kurt Blaukopf, Pioniere empiristischer musikforschung - | sdvig press