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" ... which he made to keep himself awake, the continual alternation of sleep and watching, so fatigued him, that his wife persuaded him to take some rest, promising to awake him in an hour's time. He slept so profoundly, that she suffered him to repose... "
A Musical Biograhy: Or Sketches of the Lives and Writings of Eminent Musical ... - Page 75
1824 - 250 pages
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The Lives of Haydn and Mozart: With Observations on Metastasio, and on the ...

Stendhal, Giuseppe Carpani, Théophile Frédéric Winckler, William Gardiner, Friedrich Schlichtegroll, Giuseppe Baretti - 1818 - 520 pages
...slept so profoundly, that she suffered him to repose for two hours. At five o'clock in the morning she awoke him. He had appointed the music-copiers...overture the passages where Mozart dropped asleep, and those where he suddenly awoke again. Don Juan had no great success at Vienna, at first. A short time...
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A Musical Biography: Or, Sketches of the Lives and Writings of Eminent ...

1825 - 262 pages
...slept so profoundly, that she suffered him to repose for two hours. At five o'clock in the morning she awoke him. He had appointed the music-copiers,...persons pretend that they can discover in this overture tho passages where MOZART dropped asleep, and those where he suddenly awoke again. Don Juan had no...
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The United States Literary Gazette, Volume 1

1825 - 412 pages
...profoundly, that she suuered him to repose for two hours. At five o'clock in the morning, she awoki him. He had appointed the music-copiers to come at seven, and by the time they arrived, the over ture was finished. They had scarcely time to write out the copies necessary for the orchestra,...
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The United States Literary Gazette, Volume 1

1825 - 426 pages
...slept so profoundly, that she suffered him to repose for two hours. At five o'clock in the morning, she awoke him. He had appointed the music-copiers to come at seven, and by tlie time they arrived, the overture was finished. They had scarcely time to write out the copies necessary...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 11

1826 - 384 pages
...slept so profoundly, that she suffered him to repose for two hours. At five o'clock in the morning she awoke him. He had appointed the music-copiers...overture the passages where Mozart dropped asleep, and those where he suddenly awoke again. SMEATON. Jolm Smeaton, the celebrated engineer, discovered great...
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The Percy Anecdotes, Revised Edition: To which is Added, a Valuable ...

1852 - 670 pages
...slept so profoundly, that she suffered him to repose for two hours. Al five o'clock in the morning silk, which fallí all round as low as the bottom...winter they wear a plush cap, bordered with martlets' o tin- musicians were obliged to play it without n rehearsal. Some persons pretend, that they can discover...
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The Percy Anecdotes ...

1839 - 674 pages
...slept so profoundly, that she suffered him to repose for two hours. At five o'clock in the morning she awoke him. He had appointed the music-copiers...and the musicians were obliged to play it without R rehearsal. Some persons pretend, that they can discover in this overture the passages where Mozart...
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Curiosities of Human Nature, Volume 3

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 350 pages
...repose for two hours. At five o'clock in the morning, she awoke him. He had appointed the music copiers to come at seven, and by the time they arrived, the...finished. They had scarcely time to write out the copy necessary for the orchestra, and the musicians were obliged to play it without a rehearsal. Some...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Revised Edition, Volumes 1-2

1847 - 666 pages
...repose for two hours. At five o'clock in the morning she awoke him. He had appointed the musie-copiers to come at seven ; and by the time they- arrived,...overture was finished. They had scarcely time to write ont the copies necessary for the orchestra, and the musiciaus were obliged to play it withont a rehearsal....
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Curiosities of Human Nature

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1852 - 340 pages
...o'clock in the morning, she awoke him. He had appointed the music copiers to come at seven, and hy the time they arrived, the overture was finished. They had scarcely time to write out the copy necessary for the orchestra, and the musicians were obliged to play it without a rehearsal. Some...
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