[15] This is evidently an error. The Trio had been published in 1798.—Thayer, Vol. II., p. 101.
CHAPTER VI
CONFLICT.
Deafness and its Consequences—His Brothers' Influence—Letters to Wegeler—"Mount of Olives"—Beethoven's Will—Beethoven as an Instructor—a Conductor—Sinfonia Eroica—"Leonora" ("Fidelio")—"Adelaïde."
uffering and genius! apparently so far apart, in reality so near!
The bitter cry of Milton,—
"Dark, dark, dark, amidst the blaze of noon!"