What he produced in suffering and loneliness stirred, like a mighty wind among the forest branches, the noblest feelings of a thousand hearts, bidding them grapple with Destiny as he had done, and prove themselves men and heroes!
FOOTNOTES:
[30] In translating these letters we have thought it best to keep to the original pronoun,—the simple thou being more suited to Beethoven's ideal love than the coarser you.
[31] Beethoven could not endure the foreign word pianoforte.
CHAPTER VIII
VICTORY AND SHADOW.
Period of Greatest Intellectual Activity—Hummel—The Battle of Vittoria—Congress of Vienna—Maelzel—Pecuniary Difficulties—Adoption of Nephew—The Philharmonic Society—The Classical and Romantic Schools—The Ninth Symphony—His Nephew's Conduct—Last Illness.