When I accompanied him in this Sonata-Concertante at Wien, at the repetition of the first part of the Presto, I imitated the flight, at the 18th bar, of the pianoforte of this movement thus: [Illustration: 1^{ma} volta 2^{da} volta] He jumped up, embraced me, saying: “Noch einmal, mein lieber Bursch!” (“Once again, my dear boy!”) Then he held the open pedal during this flight, the chord of C as at the ninth bar. Beethoven’s expression in the Andante was so chaste, which always characterized the performance of all his ~slow movements~, that it was unanimously hailed to be repeated twice. George Polgreen Bridgetower. [Sidenote: THE CAREER OF BRIDGETOWER] Bridgetower was mentioned in a letter from Beethoven to Baron von Wetzlar, in this language, under date May 18: Although we have never addressed each other I do not hesitate to recommend to you the bearer, Mr. Brishdower, a very capable virtuoso who has a complete command of his instrument. Besides his concertos he plays quartets admirably. I greatly wish that you make him known to others. He has commended himself favorably to Lobkowitz and Fries and all other eminent lovers (of music). I think it would be not at all a bad idea if you were to take him for an evening to Therese Schönfeld, where I know many friends assemble and at your house. I know that you will thank me for having made you acquainted with him. Bridgetower, when advanced in years, talking with Mr. Thirlwall about Beethoven, told him that at the time the Sonata, Op. 47, was composed, he and the composer were constant companions, and that the first copy bore a dedication to him; but before he departed from Vienna they had a quarrel about a girl, and Beethoven then dedicated the work to Rudolph Kreutzer.[8] [Sidenote: SUMMER LODGINGS AT DÖBLING] When Beethoven removed from the house “am Peter” to the theatre building, he took his brother Karl (Kaspar) to live with him,[9] as twenty years later he gave a room to his ~factotum~ Schindler. This change of lodgings took place, according to Seyfried, before the concert of April 5--which is confirmed by the brother’s new address being contained in the “Staats-Schematismus” for 1803--that annual publication being usually ready for distribution in April.[10] At the beginning of the warm season Beethoven, as was his annual custom, appears to have passed some weeks in Baden to refresh himself and revive his energies after the irregular, exciting and fatiguing city life of the winter, before retiring to the summer lodgings, whose position he describes in a note to Ries (“Notizen,” p. 128) as “in Oberdöbling No. 4, the street to the left where you go down the mountain to Heiligenstadt.”