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The music also was so far sketched out, that all I had further to do to it after my return from Paris, was to compose a little of the recitative, and to add the middle parts, the whole of which I finished with so much rapidity, that in three weeks my work was ready for representation. The only thing now wanting, was the divertissement, which was not composed until a long time afterwards.
In the carnival following the conclusion of the year 1753, the Devin was performed at Paris, and in this interval I had sufficient time to compose the overture and divertissement. This divertissement, such as it stands engraved, was to be in action from the beginning to the end, and in a continued subject, which in my opinion, afforded very agreeable representations.
Ordinarily he would have been grateful: to-night he was merely irritated: such neglect rendered him conspicuous.... The fixed round of delirious divertissement unfolded as per schedule. The lights were lowered to provide a melodramatic atmosphere for that startling novelty, the Apache Dance. The coon shouted stridently. The dancers danced bravely on their poor, tired feet.
He also agrees to supply the directors annually with a little operetta or a divertissement, with choruses or occasional music of the kind, as may be required, gratis; he feels confident that on the other hand the directors will not refuse, in return for these various labors, to grant him a benefit concert at all events once a year in one of the theatres.
Her mother, who had caught the Countess's trick of narrowing her eyes, inspected her from under lowered lids. "Well?" she said. "Are you still sulky?" "I? Not at all, mother." Her head went up, and she confronted her mother squarely. "I should like to inquire, if I may," observed the Archduchess, "just how you have spent the day until the little divertissement on which I stumbled.
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