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My room that I'm moving to is being prepared—I'm just off now to hire a keyboard, because I can't live there until that's been delivered, especially as I've got to write just now, and there isn't a minute to be lost.<ref>Cited from {{harvnb|Konrad|2006|p=102}}</ref></blockquote>
Konrad cites a similar letter written from Paris that indicates that Mozart didn't compose where he was staying, but visited another home to borrow the keyboard instrument there. Similar evidence is found in early biographies based on [[Constanze Mozart]]'s memories.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Prod'Homme |first=J.-G. |date=1927 |title=THE WIFE OF MOZART : CONSTANZE WEBER |url=https://academic.oup.com/mq/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/mq/XIII.3.384 |journal=The Musical Quarterly |language=en |volume=XIII |issue=3 |pages=384–409 |doi=10.1093/mq/XIII.3.384 |issn=0027-4631|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
On the other hand, Mozart was in fact able to compose without a keyboard, according to various sources. German musicologist [[Hermann Abert]] cited Mozart's first biographer [[Franz Xaver Niemetschek]] in his book, who originally wrote: "He never went to the keyboard when composing." Mozart's wife, Constanze, has also stated the same thing and added that he "only tried out a movement when it was finished".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Abert|first=Hermann|author-link=Hermann Abert|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l6I6BwTMJ3sC|title=W. A. Mozart|date=2007-01-01|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-07223-5|page=824}}</ref>
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