Transcriber's Note Bold text is indicated by ~tildes~, and italics by _underscores_. THE LIFE OF LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN VOLUME III [Illustration] [Illustration: BEETHOVEN in 1814 Engraved by Blasius Höfel After a crayon sketch by Louis Latronne] The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven _By_ Alexander Wheelock Thayer Edited, revised and amended from the original English manuscript and the German editions of Hermann Deiters and Hugo Riemann, concluded, and all the documents newly translated By Henry Edward Krehbiel Volume III Published by The Beethoven Association New York _SECOND PRINTING_ Copyright, 1921, By Henry Edward Krehbiel From the press of G. Schirmer, Inc., New York Printed in the U. S. A. Contents of Volume III PAGE CHAPTER I. The Year 1819--Guardianship of Beethoven’s Nephew Karl--Mother and Uncle in a Legal Struggle--The Lad’s Education--Conversation Books--A Wedding Song--In Travail with the Mass in D--The Commission for an Oratorio from the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde--Visits from Zelter and Friedrich Schneider--Creative Work of the Year 1 CHAPTER II. End of the Litigation over the Guardianship of the Nephew--A Costly Victory--E. T. A. Hoffmann--An Analytical Programme--Beethoven’s Financial Troubles--Adagios and English Hymn-Tunes--Stieler’s Portrait--Arrested as a Vagrant--Negotiations for the Mass in D begun with Simrock--The Last Pianoforte Sonatas--Compositions of the Years 1820 and 1821 24 CHAPTER III. The Year 1822--The Mass in D--Beethoven and His Publishers--Simrock--Schlesinger--C. F. Peters--Phantom Masses--Johann van Beethoven: His Appearance and Character--Becomes His Brother’s Agent--Meetings with Rochlitz and Rossini--Franz Schubert--“The Consecration of the House”--Revival of “Fidelio”--Madame Schroeder-Devrient--The Bagatelles--A Commission from America 51 CHAPTER IV. The Year 1823--The Roman Ritual and the Mass in D--Subscriptions Asked from Royal Courts--Incidents of the Appeal--Goethe and Cherubini Enlisted as Agents--A Medal from the King of France--Further Negotiations with Publishers and Societies--Operatic Projects--Consideration of Grillparzer’s “Melusine”--The Diabelli Variations--Summer Visitors--An Englishman’s Story--Weber and Julius Benedict--Ries and the Ninth Symphony--Franz Liszt and Beethoven’s Kiss 89