[96] Related by Court Councillor Wittescheck and confirmed by Schindler, who had “this fact” from Maximiliane--then Frau von Plittersdorf. [97] Dr. Riemann, who believes that Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved” was Countess Therese Brunswick but places the love-letter, or letters, in the year 1812, accounts for this date on the hypothesis that Beethoven reached Teplitz (whence he assumes, of course, that the letters were sent) on the fifth of the month but was registered on the seventh, on which day he was reported from his lodgings. [98] The following information about Beethoven’s association with Varnhagen in the summer of 1812, and much that is new about Beethoven’s meetings with Goethe, is Dr. Riemann’s contribution to Thayer’s biography. It is based on the correspondence between Varnhagen and Rahel Levin, a study: “Beethoven, Goethe und Varnhagen von Ense mit ungedruckten Briefen an Beethoven, Oliva, Varnhagen, etc.,” by Dr. Emil Jacobs, published in the second December installment of “Die Musik,” 1904, and the Weimar Collection of Goethe’s letters. [99] Giovanni Battista Polledro (1781-1853), violinist, concertmaster in Dresden in 1814, Court Chapelmaster in Turin in 1824. [100] By Turkish music is meant military music with drums, cymbals, etc. [101] Dr. Riemann adds: “perhaps because he had heard that the Sebalds were in Teplitz”; but, as the letter to the Archduke shows, he was already expecting to be ordered back to Teplitz on August 12. [102] Meaning Rudolph. [103] The credit of suggesting this crushing argument against the authenticity of the letter belongs to Dr. Deiters.--A.W.T. [104] An album once owned by Amalie Sebald contains this inscription: Ludwig van Beethoven Den Sie, wenn Sie auch wollten, Doch nicht vergessen sollten. Teplitz, August 8, 1812. The couplet might be rudely translated: Whom, even if you would Forget, you never should. “At that date,” says Thayer, Beethoven “was not in Teplitz; the 1812 should doubtless be 1811, and was probably added long afterwards by some one who knew nothing of their meeting the previous year.” [105] A bass trombone in F, a fourth lower than the tenor trombone. [106] A slip of memory; the composition, which was used at Beethoven’s funeral, is for 4 trombones. [107] Beethoven had begun to work industriously on the Eighth Symphony before he went to Teplitz; indeed, he seems to have reported to Breitkopf and Härtel in a letter which has not been preserved, but which was sent from Franzensbrunn, that he had finished two symphonies; for the “Allg. Mus. Zeit.” of September 2, 1812, says: “L. van Beethoven, who took the cures first at Töplitz, then in Karlsbad and is now in Eger, has ... again composed two new symphonies.” But the autograph bears the inscription: “Linz in October, 1812.” [108] Correct. Mälzel was then for a few months again in Vienna. Chapter XIII