[96] "As your Royal Highness seemed to be pleased with the sonata in C minor, I thought it would not appear too bold to surprise you with the dedication of it."

[97] The opening theme of that same symphony—

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recalls, curiously, the last movement of Beethoven's 8th Symphony; and still more so in the form in which he first sketched it—