The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume IThayer, Alexander Wheelock
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The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I
Thayer, Alexander Wheelock
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
[94] According to Frimmel, “Beethoven’s Wohnungen,” Vienna “Neue Freie
Presse,” August 11, 1899, this house was that of Court Councillor
Greiner, then No. 241, afterwards 235, now No. 10 in the Tiefen Graben
which, slightly altered, still remains. On the strength of Czerny’s
statement that one had to look up to the fifth or sixth storey to see
Beethoven, and the old report that Beethoven lived “in the Kleine
Weintraube,” Frimmel was led to think that possibly he lived in one of
the houses on the higher ground behind the Greiner house to which there
was access from the open place “Am Hof” as well as from the houses in
the Tiefen Graben and the Greiner house. The houses which bore the sign
“Zur Weintraube” were situated “am Hofe.”
[95] In B-flat, Op. 22.
[96] The Pianoforte Concerto offered to Hoffmeister was that in B-flat.
It was published by Hoffmeister and Kühnel toward the end of 1801
and advertised on January 16, 1802. The Concerto published by Mollo
was that in C major. A letter written to Breitkopf and Härtel on the
same day contains the equivalent of the remark: “I am for the present
keeping the better ones for myself until I make a tour,” which is
significant, since it makes it sure that other concertos were at least
planned and that the one in C minor was looked upon as finished by
Beethoven.
[97] In reality it was the second, as the Amenda parts show.
[98] Holz sold the Guarnerius violin in 1852 (see the “Allgemeine
Deutsche Musikzeitung” of 1888). When the Beethoven Museum in Bonn was
dedicated, the instruments were borrowed from the authorities of the
Royal Library, and exhibited in a glass case, where they remain by
sufferance of the Prussian authorities.
[99] See the dedication in Kalischer’s collection of Beethoven’s
letters translated by J. S. Shedlock, Vol. I, p. 94.
Chapter XIX
The Year 1801--Concerts for Wounded Soldiers--Vigano and the
Ballet “Prometheus”--Stephan von Breuning--Hetzendorf--“Christus
am Ölberg”--Compositions and Publications of the Year--The Funeral
March in the Sonata, Op. 26--The “Moonlight” Sonata--The Quintet,
Op. 29.
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