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  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/65‎ 09:54 +1,488‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "had a dispute over Carl with his mother, who wanted to take him away. "O, my God," he cried, my shield and my defence, my only refuge! Thou readest the depths of my soul and Thou knowest the griefs that I experience when I have to cause suffering to those who want to dispute my Carl, my treasure.<ref>"I never avenge myself," he wrote besides to Madame Streicher. "When I am obliged to act against others, I only do what is necessary to defend myself or to...) Tag: Not proofread
  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/64‎ 09:44 +1,544‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "wrote in 1818, "I am almost reduced to beggary, and I am obliged to pretend that I do not lack necessities"; and at another time, "The ''Sonata Op. 106'' has been written under pressing circumstances. It is a hard thing to have to work for bread." Spohr says that often he could not go out on account of his worn-out shoes. He owed large debts to his publishers and his compositions did not bring him in anything. The ''Mass in D'', published by subscription...) Tag: Not proofread
  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/63‎ 09:36 +1,674‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "Russell, who saw him at the piano about the year 1825, says that when he wanted to play quietly the notes did not sound and that it was very moving to follow in silence the emotion animating him expressed in his face, and in the movements of his fingers. Buried in himself,<ref>See the admirable notes of Wagner on Beethoven's deafness (''Beethoven'', 1870).</ref> and separated from all mankind, his only consolation was in Nature. "She was his sole confide...) Tag: Not proofread
  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/62‎ 09:24 +1,551‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "'I beg you not to continue; I will explain why at your house. With one leap he jumped from the platform, saying to me, 'Let us go quickly.' He ran straight to his house, went in and threw him-self down on a sofa, covering his face with his hands; he remained like that until dinner-time. At the table it was impossible to draw a word from him; he wore an expression of complete despondency and profound grief. After dinner when I wanted to leave him, he kept...) Tag: Not proofread
  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/50‎ 09:18 +1,466‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "its beauty, and calmly accept the inevitable—love demands everything, and rightly so. Thus is it for me with thee, for thee with me, only thou so easily forgettest that I must live for my-self and for thee. Were we wholly united, thou wouldst feel this painful fact as little as I should. My journey was terrible. I arrived here only yesterday morning at four o'clock, and as they were short of herses, the mail-coach selected another route; but what an awfu...) Tag: Not proofread
  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/49‎ 09:12 +1,464‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "1810. Beethoven doubtless owed to it the self-mastery which at this period enabled him to pro- duce some of the most perfect fruits of his genius; that great classical tragedy, the Symphony in C minor and that delicious idyll of a summer's day: the Pastoral Symphony, 1808.<ref>The music for Goethe's play ''Egmont'' was commenced in 1809. Beethoven had also wished to write the music to William Tell, but Gyrovetz was chosen before him.</ref> The Sonata App...) Tag: Not proofread
  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/66‎ 08:18 +1,453‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "you to Providence; I have done all that I could; I am ready to appear before the Supreme Judge! "Spoilt as you are, that should not make it difficult to teach you to be simple and true; my heart has suffered so much by your hypocritical conduct, and it is difficult for me to forget. {{....}} God is my witness, I only long to be a thousand miles from you and from that sorry brother and from this abominable family. {{....}} I shall never more have confide...) Tag: Not proofread
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  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/77‎ 08:10 +1,618‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "Dr. Spiker, who saw him in 1826, said that his face had become smiling and jovial. The same year when Grillparzer spoke to him for the last time, it was Beethoven who had more energy than the worn-out poet: "Ah!" said the latter, "if I had a thousandth part of your strength and determination." Times were hard; the monarchial reaction oppressed their spirits. "The censors have killed me," groaned Grillparzer. "One must go to North America if one wishes to...) Tag: Not proofread
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  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/76‎ 08:03 +2,432‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "''Symphony'',<ref>Beethoven wrote to Moscheles on March 18th, 1827: "The complete sketch of a Symphony is in my desk with a new overture." This sketch has never been found. One only reads in his notes:<br>Adagio cantique." Religious song for a symphony in the old modes (''Herr Gott dich loben wir.—Alleluja''), may be in an independent style, may be as introduction to a fugue. This Symphony might be characterised by the entrance of voices, perhaps in the...) Tag: Not proofread
  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/75‎ 07:48 +1,852‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "Schindler's house where he remained asleep all the night and the following morning, fully dressed, neither eating nor drinking. The triumph was only fleeting, however, and the concert brought in nothing for Beethoven. His material circumstances of life were not changed by it. He found himself poor, ill,<ref>In August, 1824, he was haunted with the fear of sudden death "like my grandfather to whom I bear so much resemblance," he wrote on August 16th, 1824...) Tag: Not proofread
  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/48‎ 07:36 +1,695‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "far as possible with what was generally known and admired in the forms handed down by his predecessors.<ref>Nohl: ''Life of Beethoven''.</ref>" The same conciliating spirit springing from this love re-acted on his manners and his way of living in general. Ignaz von Seyfried and Grillparzar say that he was full of life, bright, happy and witty, courteous in society, patient with tedious people and careful in his dress. Even his deafness was not noticed,...) Tag: Not proofread
  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/47‎ 07:14 +1,630‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "ing" she says, "after dinner, with the moon shining into the room, Beethoven was seated at the piano. At first he laid his hands flat on the keyboard. Franz and I always understood this, for it was his usual preparation. Then he struck some chords in the bass and slowly with an air of solemnity and mystery drifted into a song of John Sebastian Bach: '''If thou wilt give me thy heart, first let it be in secret, that our hearts may commingle and no one div...) Tag: Not proofread
  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/78‎ 06:40 +2,004‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "an extraordinary reputation."<ref>In 1819 he was followed by the police for having said aloud "That, after all, Christ was only a crucified Jew." He was then writing the ''Mass in D''. That work alone is enough to show the freedom of his religious inspirations. (For the religious opinions of Beethoven, see Theodor von Frimmel; ''Beethoven'', 3rd Edition, Verlag Harmonie; and ''Beethovenia'', edited by Georg Müller, Vol. 11, Blöchinger). No less free in p...) Tags: Not proofread added trigger word
  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/61‎ 06:35 +1,576‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "autumn of 1815 he could only communicate with his friends by writing.<ref>A change of style in his music, beginning with the Sonata Op: 101, dates from this time.</ref> The oldest conversation-book is dated 1816.<ref>Beethoven's conversation-books form more than 11,000 manuscript pages, and can be found bound to-day in the Imperial Library at Berlin.</ref> There is a sad story recorded by Schindler with regard to the representation of ''Fidelio'' in 1822...) Tag: Not proofread
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  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/74‎ 06:13 +1,777‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "nation awaits new life, new laurels, and a new reign of truth and beauty, despite the fashion of the day. {{....}} Give us the hope of soon seeing our desires 'satisfied. And then the springtime which is coming will blossom again doubly, thanks to your gifts to us and to the world!"<ref>February, 1824. Signed Prince C. Lichnovsky, Count Maurice Lichnovsky, Count Maurice de Fries, Count M. de Dietrichstein, Count F. de Palfy, Count Czernin, Ignace Edler d...) Tag: Not proofread
  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/73‎ 06:08 +1,613‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "Then follows a sacred orgy, a very delirium of love. A whole trembling humanity lifts its arms to the sky, utters powerful outcries, rushes forth towards this Joy and clasps it to the heart. This Titanic work overcame the indifference of the public. The frivolous crowds of Vienna were moved for an instant, but they still favoured Rossini and his Italian operas. Humiliated and saddened, Beethoven was on the point of going to live in London and thought of...) Tag: Not proofread
  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/72‎ 05:40 +1,494‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "very deep. Continually tormented by grief, this unfortunate man had always aspired to sing the excellence of Joy; and from year to year he put off his task, held back ceaselessly by the whirlwind of his passion and grief. It was only at the very last that he succeeded. But with what a success! At the moment when the Theme of Joy appears for the first time, the orchestra stops abruptly, thus giving a sudden unexpected character to the entrance of the Son...) Tag: Not proofread
  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/71‎ 05:38 +1,469‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "Until the very last moment, he was on the point of putting off the ''Ode to Joy'' to a ''Tenth'' or ''Eleventh Symphony''. One ought to notice that the Ninth Symphony is not entitled ''Choral Symphony'', as it is now invariably called, but ''Symphony with a Final Chorus on the Ode to Joy''. It narrowly missed having another conclusion. In July, 1823, Beethoven still thought of giving it an instrumental finale, which he used later on for the quartet Op: 1...) Tag: Not proofread

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  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/51‎ 11:45 +1,384‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "must send the rest; what is in store for us must be and ought to be. {{right|Thy faithful<br>LUDWIG."}} It is difficult to divine what was the barrier which separated these two from the consummation of their love. Was it the lack of fortune or the difference in social position? Perhaps Beethoven rebelled against the long period of probation which was imposed on him or resented the humiliation of keeping his love secret for an indefinite period. Perhaps,...) Tag: Not proofread
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  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/56‎ 11:30 +1,663‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "were written during a stay of several months at Töplitz. These works are veritable orgies of rhythm and humour; in them he is perhaps revealing himself in his most natural and as he styled it himself, most "unbuttoned " (''aufgeknopft'') moods, transports of gaiety contrasting unexpectedly with storms of fury and disconcerting flashes of wit followed by those Titanic explosions which terrified both Goethe and Zelter<ref>Letter from Goethe to Zelter, and...) Tag: Not proofread
  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/70‎ 11:08 +1,964‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "whose death he hastened in no slight measure. Nor was he with him at the hour of his death. "God has never abandoned me," wrote Beethoven to his nephew, some years before. "He will find someone to close my eyes." This was not to be the one whom he called "his son."<ref>The dilettantism of our time has not failed to seek to re- instate this scoundrel. This is not surprising.</ref> It was from the depth of this abyss that Beethoven undertook to chant his...) Tag: Not proofread
  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/69‎ 11:01 +1,478‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "with your moral development, with an affection more than paternal, begs you from the bottom of his heart to follow the only true path of the good and the just. {{right|Your faithful foster-father.<ref>A letter which has been found in Berlin to M. Kalischer, shews with what deep feeling Beethoven wished to make his nephew" a citizen useful to the state" (February 1st, 1819).</ref>}} After having cherished all kinds of dreams for the future of this nephe...) Tag: Not proofread
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  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/88‎ 06:32 +1,375‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "life may be better, less troubled by cares than mine. Recommend to your children virtue; it alone can bring happiness, not money. I speak from experience. It was virtue which bore me up in time of trouble; to her, next to my art, I owe thanks for my not having laid violent hands on myself. Farewell, and love one another. My thanks to all friends, especially ''Prince Lichnovsky and Professor Schmidt''. I should much like one of you to keep as an heirloom...) Tag: Not proofread
  • diffhist Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/45‎ 06:29 +11‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎
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  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/46‎ 06:28 +2,255‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "Beethoven suddenly broke off the C minor Symphony to write the Fourth Symphony at a single sitting without his usual sketches. Happiness had come to him. In May 1806, he was betrothed to Theresa von Brunswick.<ref>Or to be more exact, Theresa Brunsvik. Beethoven had met the Brunsviks at Vienna between 1796 and 1799. Giulietta Guicciardi was the cousin of Theresa. Beethoven seems also to have been attracted at one period by one of Theresa's sisters, Josep...) Tag: Not proofread
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  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/89‎ 06:21 +1,077‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "On the fourth side of the large Will sheet:— Heiginstadt, October, 1802, thus I take my farewell of thee—and, indeed, sadly—yes, that fond hope which I entertained when I came here, of being at any rate healed up to a certain point, must be entirely abandoned. As the leaves of autumn fall and fade, so it has withered away for me; almost the same as when I came here do I go away—even the high courage which often in the beautiful summer days quickened me,...) Tag: Not proofread
  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/87‎ 06:17 +1,542‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "state. ''Patience'', I am told, I must choose as my guide. I have done so—lasting, I hope, will be my resolution to bear up until it pleases the in- exorable Parcae to break the thread. Foroed, already in my 28th year,<ref>Beethoven was at the time in his 3and year; but he never knew precisely his age.</ref> to become a philosopher it is not easy; for an artist more difficult than for any one else. O Divine Being, Thou Who lookest down into my inmost sou...) Tag: Not proofread
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  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/45‎ 06:13 +1,810‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "often I should always be very valiant";<ref>Robert de Keudell, German Ambassador in Rome: Bismarck and his family, 1901. Robert de Keudell played this Sonata to Bismarck on an indifferent piano on 30th October, 1870, at Versailles. Bismarck remarked regarding the latter part of the work: "The sighs and struggles of a whole life are in this music." He preferred Beethoven to all other composers, and more than once affirmed "Beethoven's music more than any...) Tag: Not proofread
  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/44‎ 06:08 +2,140‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "of the Symphony in C minor, 1805 to 1808, the grand epic of glory. This is really the first music breathing the revolutionary feeling. The soul of the times lives again in it with the intensity and purity which great events have for those mighty and solitary souls who live apart and whose impressions are not contaminated by contact with the reality. Beethoven's spirit reveals itself, marked with stirring events, coloured by the reflections of these great...) Tag: Not proofread
  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/43‎ 06:03 +1,651‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "In many of his works one is struck by the powerful and energetic march rhythms, full of the fighting spirit. This is especially noticeable in the ''Allegro'' and the ''Finale'' of Second Symphony, and still more in the first movement, full of superb heroism, of the Violin Sonata dedicated to the Emperor Alexander. The war-like character of this music recalls the period in which it was written. The Revolution had reached Vienna. Beethoven was completely c...) Tag: Not proofread
  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/42‎ 05:56 +1,534‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "It infirmity; and then {{....}} no, I can bear it no longer. I will wage war against destiny. shall not overcome me completely. Oh, how fine it would be to live a thousand lives in one!"<ref>To Wegeler.</ref> This love of his, this suffering, this resignation, these alternations of dejection and pride, these "soul-tragedies are all reflected in the great compositions written in 1802—the Sonata with the Funeral March, Opus 26; the ''Sonata quasi una Fant...) Tag: Not proofread
  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/41‎ 05:51 +1,657‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "being cut to the heart. In that dark hour he was on the verge of suicide. Only his strong moral force saved him.<ref>"Bring up your children to be virtuous. That alone can make them happy; money will not. I speak from experience. It is that which sustained me in my misery. Virtue and Art alone have saved me from taking my own life." And in another letter, and May, 1810, to Wegeler: "If I had not read somewhere that a man ought not to take his own life so...) Tag: Not proofread
  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/40‎ 05:46 +1,679‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "change has been brought about by the charm of a dear girl; she loves me and I love her. These are the first happy moments I have had for two years."<ref>To Wegeler, 16 November, 1801.</ref> He paid dearly for them. From the first, this love made him feel more keenly the misery of the infirmity which had overtaken him and the precarious conditions of his life which made it impossible for him to marry the one he loved. Moreover, Giulietta was a flirt, chil...) Tag: Not proofread
  • diffhist N Page:Rolland - Beethoven, tr. Hull, 1927.pdf/85‎ 05:40 +1,144‎ ‎86.60.40.58 talk‎ (→‎Not proofread: Created page with "{{c|{{l|THE HEILIGENSTADT WILL.<ref>Translation by J. S. Shedlock. See footnote, page 65.</ref>}}}} {{c|For my brothers CARL and —— BEETHOVEN.}} O ye men who regard or declare me to be malignant, stubborn or cynical, how unjust are ye towards me! You do not know the secret cause of my seeming so. From childhood onward, my heart and mind prompted me to be kind and tender, and I was ever inclined to accomplish great deeds. But only think that during the...) Tag: Not proofread

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