not his attempts, defeated by insufficient technical skill, to combine the polyphony of the sixteenth century with the harmonic and rhythmic structure of the nineteenth, that suggested to Brahms, more fully equipped, his great enterprise? Thus even the failures of a great man are full of promise; and Beethoven, and all his forerunners too, still live and speak to us in the music of to-day. FOOTNOTE: [47] See page 276. * * * * * TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. The book cover was created by the Transcriber and has been put in the public domain. A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants. For the words with both variants present the one more used has been kept. Obvious punctuation and other printing errors have been corrected. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Beethoven and His Forerunners, by Daniel Gregory Mason