All instances of "i.e." have been regularised to "i. e.".
The following printing errors have been corrected:
- p. 5 "he “doubled" changed to "he doubled"
- p. 6 "performance." changed to "performance.”"
- p. 26 "that that this" changed to "that this"
- p. 30 "difficult one. Beethoven violently" changed to "difficult one, Beethoven violently"
- p. 35 "and the begining" changed to "and the beginning"
- p. 54 the paragraph beginning "Many years after" was indented
- p. 76 "you were!”" changed to "you were!””"
- p. 103 "prefer me?" changed to "prefer me?”"
- p. 123 "in the “house" changed to "in the house"
- p. 153 "much easier.”" changed to "much easier.’”"
- p. 161 "“Weinmonath”" changed to "“Weinmonath"
- p. 171 "diastrous" changed to "disastrous"
- p. 174 "From Zmeskall’s lodgings" changed to "From Beethoven’s lodgings"
- p. 215 "out of place" changed to "out of place."
- p. 219 "acquaintaince" changed to "acquaintance"
- p. 226 "romatic" changed to "romantic"
- p. 227 "you good.”" changed to "you good.””"
- p. 231 "similiar" changed to "similar"
- p. 262 "Zukünft" changed to "Zukunft"
- p. 266 "Gründer" changed to "Gründer”"
- p. 290 "inprovised" changed to "improvised"
- p. 296 "etc.," changed to "etc."
- p. 296 "This seems" changed to "“This seems"
- p. 302 "III “Fidelio”" changed to "III. “Fidelio”"
- p. 313 "in C major" changed to "in C major."
- p. 325 "Farwell" changed to "Farewell"
- p. 327 "passively" changed to "passively."
- p. 342 "out attention" changed to "our attention"
- p. 366 "disatisfaction" changed to "dissatisfaction"
- p. 381 (note) "Zurich" changed to "Zürich"
- p. 383 "wereoften" changed to "were often"
- p. 389 "was compossed" changed to "was composed"
- p. 398 "setted" changed to "settled"
- p. 412 "two movenents" changed to "two movements"
The following possible errors have not been changed:
- p. vii "Disappointing Decrease" and p. 170 "Decrease"
- p. 3 "at both: and in this wise:"
- p. 6 and p. 267 "Tremate, empj, tremate"
- p. 151 (note) "Neverthless"
- p. 273 "“urged its completion" has no closing quotation mark
- p. 291 "you up came"
- p. 341 "how how right"
- p. 353 "xThe present"
- p. 415 "was thought"
The text uses the following inconsistently:
- Carl and Karl
- contrabass and contra-bass
- Kozeluch and Koželuch
- Les Ruines de Babylon and Les ruines de Babilone
- nameday and name-day
- P.P. and P. P.
- pianoforte and piano-forte
In addition, there are many inconsistencies in spelling and punctuation in quotations, which have not been changed.
Grätz and Gratz are different names.