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The F minor Fantaisie has hardly the Mozartian serenity, but parades a formal beauty not disfigured by an excess of violence, either personal or patriotic, and its melodies, if restless by melancholy, are of surprising nobility and dramatic grandeur.

It was then that he composed the first two acts of Siegfried, and later on The Mastersingers, a professedly comedic work, and a quite Mozartian garden of melody, hardly credible as the work of the straining artifices of Tanehauser.

I looked about me for help and succour and beheld another wondrous thing: the audience listened patiently: quite convinced that everything was in the best possible order, and that they were having a true Mozartian "feast for the ears" in all innocence and safety. This being so, I acquiesced, and bowed my head in silence. Once, however, a little later on, my patience failed.

The action now begins in the courtyard of the prison, where, before the jailer's lodge, Marcellina is performing her household duties ironing the linen, to be specific. The duet, quite in the Mozartian vein, breathes simplicity throughout; plain people, with plain manners, these, who express simple thoughts in simple language. Jaquino begins eagerly: