(In Baden, 1824, to Freudenberg.)
124. “The little man, otherwise so gentle,—I never would have credited him with such a thing. Now Weber must write operas in earnest, one after the other, without caring too much for refinement! Kaspar, the monster, looms up like a house; wherever the devil sticks in his claw we feel it.”
(To Rochlitz, at Baden, in the summer of 1823.)
125. “There you are, you rascal; you’re a devil of a fellow, God bless you!... Weber, you always were a fine fellow.”
(Beethoven’s hearty greeting to Karl Maria von Weber, in October, 1823.)
126. “K. M. Weber began too learn too late; art did not have a chance to develop naturally in him, and his single and obvious striving is to appear brilliant.”
(A remark reported by Seyfried.)
127. “‘Euryanthe’ is an accumulation of diminished seventh chords—all little backdoors!”
(Remarked to Schindler about Weber’s opera.)
128. “Truly, a divine spark dwells in Schubert!”