[190] It has materially suffered during the last three years.
[191] Beethoven received 25 guineas in a cheque of £26 5s., while the calculations were made in pounds.—RIES.
[192] Mr. Neate did not succeed in disposing of these three Quartets (œuvres posthumes) to a publisher.—ED.
[193] It was suggested that this Symphony should be performed at the musical festival at Aix-la-Chapelle. Beethoven, however, did not send it. The committee had written to him directly, but had received promises only. At last I wrote, and begged that, knowing him and his scores as well as I did, he would send me the original score, which I should be able to make out. I promised him at the same time (well aware of his constant want of money) another present, which I received for him some time after to the amount of forty louis-d'ors.—RIES.
[194] Probably belonging to a dramatic piece, "The Ruins of Athens," written for a performance at Pesth.
[195] When I left England I went to live at Godesberg, near Bonn, one of the most beautiful parts on the Rhine. I had invited Beethoven to come and see me there; and had pressed him to live at once with me, and in his native home, for some little time.—RIES.
[196] From the Harmonicon, October, 1824.
[197] Most of our readers will concur with us in thinking this a most eccentric mode of colouring musically so gentle a word.
[198] This passage has puzzled many a leader and conductor, and many have altered it thus:—
