1	Unless otherwise noted, the details of this biography are drawn from: 1) Aus Moscheles' Leben, edited by Charlotte Embden Moscheles, two volumes, Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot Verlag, 1872; and 2) A. D. Coleridge's translation of this work, entitled Life of Moscheles, two volumes, London, Hurst and Blackett, 1873.
2	Thayer's Life of Beethoven, revised and edited by Elliot Forbes, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1976, p. 449.
3	The Life of Beethoven, a translation by Ignaz Moscheles of Anton Schindler's Biographie von Ludwig van Beethoven, two volumes, London, Henry Colburn, 1841; Vol. I, preface, pp. ix-xi. Also: Beethoven und seine Zeitgenossen, Dr. Alfred C. Kalischer, four volumes, Berlin and Leipzig, Schuster & Loeffler, 1908: Vol. IV, p. 45.
4	Forbes, op. cit., pp. 584-585; Kalischer, op. cit., pp. 47-48; I. Moscheles, op. cit., I, pp. xii-xiii.
5	I. Moscheles, op. cit., I, p. 147.
6	An extensive discussion of the roles of privileged European Jewry at the outset of the nineteenth century may be found in "The Jews, the Nation-State, and the Birth of Antisemitism," The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt, New York and London, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973, pp. 11-68.
7	For these particulars I am indebted to Henry J. Roche, a great-great-grandson of Moscheles who has made an extensive study of his family tree.
8	An excellent presentation of the course of Jewish emancipation in England is provided by Cecil R. Roth in his A History of the Jews in England, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1941, Chapter XI ("Emancipation: 1815-1858), pp. 239-263, and Epilogue, pp. 264-267.
9	Quoted in Metternich and the Duchess, Dorothy Gies McGuigan, Garden City and New York, Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1975, p. 352.
10	Carl Bertuchs Tagebuch vom Wiener Kongress, edited by Hermann Freiherr von Egloffstein, Berlin, Verlag von Gebrüder Pastel, 1916, p. 39.
11	The appointment of Moscheles is announced in the Leipziger Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, Vol. XIII, No. 5, Jan. 30, 1811, under "Notizen," p. 88.
12	Schumann recalls this concert in a letter to his mother on December 15, 1830, from Leipzig, in: Early Letters of Robert Schumann, originally published by his wife, translated by May Herbert, St. Clair Shores (Michigan), Scholarly Press, 1970, p. 131. This is a reprint of the 1888 edition published by George Bell and Sons in London.
13	This concert forms part of William S. Newman's discussion of "The Sonata in Romantic Society," The Sonata Since Beethoven, New York, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1972, pp. 56-57.
14	The Atlas (of London), Vol. XII, No. 563, Feb. 2, 1837, p. 142.
15	Newman, op. cit., p. 57.
16	The Atlas, Vol. XVIII, No. 900, Aug. 12, 1843, p. 519.
17	The Atlas, Vol. IX, No. 435, Sept. 14, 1834, p. 588.
18	The Méthode has been reprinted by Minkoff, Geneva, 1973.
19	The Times (of London), No. 17661, May 4, 1841, p. 5.
20	The dates are obtained from performance records which Moscheles wrote on the slipcovers of the three keyboard parts. The slipcovers, as well as Moscheles's full score (prepared by a copyist but with Moscheles's notations) are in a private collection.
21	Thematisches Verzeichniss im Druck erschienener Compositionen von Ignaz Moscheles, London, H. Baron, 1966, p. 33. A reprint of the 1858 Kistner catalog.
22	The Athenæum (of London), No. 973, June 20, 1846, p. 636.
23	The Times, No. 19266, June 18, 1846, p. 220.
24	The Atlas, Vol. XXI, No. 1038, Apr. 4, 1846, p. 220.
25	The Morning Post (of London), No. 23633, June 18, 1846, p. 5.
26	Max Kalbeck, Johannes Brahms, four volumes, Berlin, 1904-1914.
27	Neue Zeitschrift für Musik.