text:  Having run through the whole previous winter without interruption and rescued the treasury of the theatre from ruinous embarrassments the opera was arranged in every possible form; for the pianoforte for wind-instruments (garden music ) as violin quintets for the chamber and German dances; in short the melodies of 'Figaro' re-echoed in every street and every garden; nay even the blind harper himself at the door of the beer-house was obliged to strike up _Non piu andrai_ if he wished to gain an audience or earn a kreutzer