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Meanwhile (while waiting for the Ischl train) I sang something to myself, which I afterwards recognized as the aria from The Marriage of Figaro: -

"If my lord Count would tread a measure, tread a measure, Let him but say his pleasure, And I will play the tune."

Meanwhile (while waiting for the Ischl train) I sang something to myself, which I afterwards recognized as the aria from The Marriage of Figaro: -

"If my lord Count would tread a measure, tread a measure, Let him but say his pleasure, And I will play the tune." 

She is at the opera.  It is a Wagnerian performance, 

which has lasted until 7.45 in the morning.

His piano teacher reproaches him for neglecting his piano-playing, 
and for not practicing the Etudes of Moscheles 
and Clementi's Gradus ad Parnassum. 

With reference to this he remarked that the Gradus, too, is a stairway, 

and that the piano itself is a stairway, as it has a scale.

He is witnessing a performance of Fidelio from the stalls of the opera-house; he is sitting next to L., whose personality is congenial to him, and whose friendship he would like to have.  Suddenly he flies diagonally right across the stall; he then puts his hand in his mouth and draws out two of his teeth.