CHAPTER XII. Music in Vienna at the Time of Beethoven’s Arrival There--Theatre, Church and Concert-Room--Salieri and the Royal Imperial Opera--Schikaneder’s Theater auf der Wieden--Composers and Conductors in the Imperial Capital--Paucity of Public Concerts--A Music-loving Nobility: The Esterhazys; Kinsky; Lichnowsky; von Kees; van Swieten--Private Orchestras--Composers: Haydn, Koželuch, Förster, Eberl, Vanhall--Private Theatres 163 CHAPTER XIII. Beethoven in Society--Success as a Virtuoso--The Trios, Op. 1--Tender Memories of Friends in Bonn--A Letter to Leonore von Breuning--Wegeler Comes to Vienna--His Reminiscences--A Quarrel and Petition for Reconciliation--Irksome Social Conventions--Affairs of the Heart--Variations for Simrock--First Public Appearance as Pianist and Composer--The Pianoforte Concertos in C and B-flat--The Trios, Op. 1, Revised--Sonatas Dedicated to Haydn--Dances for the Ridotto Room--Plays at Haydn’s Concert 174 CHAPTER XIV. The Years 1796 and 1797--Success Achieved in the Austrian Capital--A Visit to Prague--The Scena: “Ah, perfido!”--Sojourn in Berlin--King Frederick William II--Prince Louis Ferdinand--Violoncello Sonatas--Relations with Himmel--Plays for the Singakademie--Fasch and Zelter--War-Songs--The Rombergs--A Forgotten Riding-Horse--Compositions and Publications of the Period--Matthisson and His “Adelaide”--Quintet for Strings, Op. 4--Pieces for Wind-instruments--The “Jena” Symphony--Dances 190 CHAPTER XV. General Bernadotte--The Fiction about His Connection with the “Sinfonia eroica”--Rival Pianists--Joseph Wölffl--Tomaschek Describes Beethoven’s Playing--Dragonetti--J. B. Cramer--Beethoven’s Demeanor in Society--Compositions of 1798 and 1799--The Trios, Op. 9--Pianoforte Concertos in C and B-flat--An Unfinished Rondo for Pianoforte and Orchestra--Several Pianoforte Sonatas--“Sonate pathétique”--Trio for Pianoforte, Clarinet and Violoncello--Origin of the First Symphony--Protest Against an Arrangement of it as a Quintet 212 CHAPTER XVI. Beethoven’s Social Life in Vienna--Vogl-- Kiesewetter--Zmeskall--Amenda--Count Lichnowsky-- Eppinger--Krumpholz--Schuppanzigh and His Quartet--Johann Nepomuk Hummel--Friendships with Women--Magdalene Willmann-- Christine Gerhardi--Dedications to Pupils--Countess Keglevics--Countess Henriette Lichnowsky--Countess Giulietta Guicciardi--Countess Thun--Princess Liechtenstein--Baroness Braun 229