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…
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