the social embarrassment of his situation, provided him with lodgings, and would eventually give him security in his old age" (Link). Zinzendorf did receive a "sizeable" inheritance in 1806, but by then most of his life had passed by. The diaries Zinzendorf is remembered for the massive diary he kept, starting at age eight and continuing to his death. Still unpublished, it covers 76 volumes. The diary is written in French, a language widely used by German aristocrats in Zinzendorf's day. Historical musicology is indebted to the diaries because Zinzendorf was an inveterate theater-goer and records a great deal of information about performances and performers that would otherwise have been lost. The mature operas of Mozart were among the best-known works that Zinzendorf witnessed at their first performances. Notes References Dickson, P. G. M. (2007) "Count Karl von Zinzendorf's 'New Accountancy': the Structure of Austrian Government Finance in Peace and War, 1781–1791." The International History Review 29(1): 22–56. Harbecke, Ulrich (1969) "Das Tagebuch des Grafen Karl von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf als theatergeschichtliche Quelle." Dissertation, University of Cologne. Link, Dorothea (1998) The National Court Theatre in Mozart's Vienna: Sources and Documents. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Link, Dorothea (2006) "Zinzendorf, Count Karl Zinzendorf und Potterdorf". In The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia, ed. Cliff Eisen and Simon P. Keefe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 553–554 Rice, John (1998) Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Further reading Antal Szántay: Grete Klingenstein, Eva Faber, and Antonio Trampus, eds., "Europäische Aufklärung zwischen Wien und Triest: Die Tagebücher des Gouverneurs Karl Graf von Zinzendorf, 1776–1782." The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 84, No. 1 (March 2012), pp. 242–246 18th-century German politicians 18th-century Austrian people Austrian politicians German diarists 1739 births 1813 deaths