printed? Yet upon the title stands, “Par un jeune amateur, Louis van Beethoven, âgé de dix ans.” If this were a solitary case of apparent discrepancy between the boy’s age and the year given it would attract and deserve no notice; but it is one of many and adds its weight to the evidence of that falsification already spoken of.[23] A second work belonging to this period is a two-part fugue in D for the organ.[24] BEETHOVEN AS NEEFE’S ASSISTANT To return to the young organist, who, since the publication of Wegeler’s “Notizen,” has always been supposed to have been placed at that instrument by the Elector Max Franz in the year 1785, as a method of giving him pecuniary aid without touching his feelings of pride and independence. The place of assistant to Neefe was no sinecure; although not involving much labor, it brought with it much confinement. The old organ had been destroyed by the fire of 1777, and a small chamber instrument still supplied its place. It was the constantly recurring necessity of being present at the religious services which made the position onerous. On all Sundays and regular festivals (says the Court Calendar) high mass at 11 a.m. and vespers at 3 (sometimes 4) p.m. The vespers will be sung throughout in _Capellis solemnibus_ by the musicians of the electoral court, the middle vespers will be sung by the court clergy and musicians chorally as far as the _Magnificat_, which will be performed musically. On all Wednesdays in Lent the _Miserere_ will be sung by the chapel at 5 p.m. and on all Fridays the _Stabat mater_. Every Saturday at 3 p.m. the Litanies at the altar of Our Lady of Loretto. Every day throughout the year two masses will be read, the one at 9, the other at 11--on Sundays the latter at 10.