CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
BEETHOVEN’S YOUTH AND EARLIEST EFFORTS.
Birth and Baptism—His Family—Young Beethoven’s Character—His
Brothers Karl and Johann—Early Talent for Music—Appears in
Public at the Age of Seven—Errors as to His Age—Travels in Holland—Studies
the Organ in Vienna—His Fame Foretold—His Personal
Appearance—Meets Mozart—Mozart’s Opinion of Him—Maximilian,
Elector of Cologne, and Mozart—Beethoven’s Intellectual
Training—Madame von Breuning—First Love—Beethoven and
Hayden—Compositions written in Vienna		[9]-[39]
CHAPTER II.
THE EROICA AND FIDELIO.
Music in Vienna—Society in Vienna—Beethoven’s Dedications—Lichnowsky—The
Eroica and Fidelio—Beethoven’s First Great Exploits—Plans
for Future Work—Decides to Remove to the North—New Compositions—His
Improvisations—Disappointments in North Germany—Prince
Louis Ferdinand—Makes His Home in Austria—Neglects His
Health—His Deafness—Origin of the Eroica—Napoleon I—Bernadotte—The
Symphony in C Minor—His Deafness Again—Thoughts
of Marriage—The Guicciardi Family—Meaning of His Music—His
“Will”—Disappointment—Meaning of the Eroica and Fidelio—The
Leonore Overture—Other Compositions		[40]-[81]
CHAPTER III.
THE SYMPHONY C MINOR.—THE PASTORALE, AND THE SEVENTH,
SYMPHONIES.
The Pastorale—Meaning of the Apassionata—Beethoven’s Letter to His
“Immortal Loved One”—His Own Opinion of the Apassionata—Thinks
of Writing Operas—Court Composer—Overture to Coriolanus—The
Mass in C, op. 86—His Sacred Music—The Fidelio In Prague—Music
for Goethe’s Faust—“Power, the Moral Code”—Character of
His Works about this Period—Intercourse with the Malfattis—The
Cello Sonata, op. 69—Improvement in His pecuniary Circumstances—Joseph
Bonaparte—Vienna fears to lose Him—Contemplated Journey
to England—The Seventh Symphony—His Heirathspartie—His
Letter to Bettina—His Estimate of Genius		[82]-[121]
CHAPTER IV.
THE MISSA SOLEMNIS AND THE NINTH SYMPHONY.
Resignation—Pecuniary Distress—Napoleon’s Decline—The Battle-Symphony—Its
Success—Wellington’s Victory—Strange Conduct—Intellectual
Exaltation—His Picture by Letronne—The Fidelio Before the
Assembled Monarchs—Beethoven the Object of Universal Attention—Presents
from Kings—The Liederkreis—Madame von Ertmann—Romulus
and the Oratorio—His “Own Style”—Symphony for
London—Opinion of the English People—His Missa Solemnis—His
Own Opinion of it—Its Completion—Characteristics—The Ninth Symphony		[122]-[162]
CHAPTER V.
THE LAST QUARTETS
Berlioz on the Lot of Artists—Beethoven Misunderstood—The Great
Concert of May, 1821—Preparation for It—Small Returns—Beethoven
Appreciated—The Quartets—An “Oratorio for Boston”—Overture
on B-A-C-H—Influence of His Personal Experience on His Works—His
Brother Johann—Presentiment of Death—The Restoration of
Metternich and Gentz—His “Son”—Troubles with the Young Man
Debility—Calls for Dr. Malfatti—Poverty—The “Magnanimous”
English—Calls a Clergyman—His Death		[163]-[201]

LIFE OF BEETHOVEN.