[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.