[147] A kind of fish resembling the haddock, caught in the Danube.
[148] "Beethoven Studien," p. 26.
[149] Ries, in his "Notizen," p. 124, sets forth at length the reasons for these doubts.
[150] This fully proves that Beethoven always showed more contrition than his fault could warrant. The cause of the altercation is not mentioned in Wegeler's Notizen, from which these letters are extracted.—ED.
[151] This work was the Variations on Mozart's Figaro, "Se vuol ballare." (Dunst, 4th part, No. 27.) He afterwards dedicated a Sonata, or rather Sonatina, to her, which appeared in Dunst's edition, 1st part, No. 64.
[152] Barbara Koch, afterwards Countess Belderbusch, an intimate friend of Madame von Breuning, a lady distinguished alike in all the qualities which can adorn the mind of woman. She was surrounded not only by men of the highest talent—such as Beethoven, Romberg, Reicha, &c.—but science as well as rank did homage to her brilliant qualities.
[153] Afterwards Count of Marienstadt, and a classical writer.
[154] Angola rabbits, or silk hares.
[155] A shake is carried on through several bars with alternate fingers, whilst three fingers are employed besides. The fingering is marked.
[156] Beethoven complained to me of this musical espionage. He named to me the Abbé Gelinek, that most fertile writer of Variations, who always quartered himself in his vicinity. This might have been the cause of Beethoven's always choosing lodgings in a square or on the ramparts.