The translation of the letters contained in this present volume have been taken from that work by kind permission of the author and the publishers.
A good selection from these letters, issued in one volume at a moderate price, would be a great boon to English readers.
II.—FOR BEETHOVEN'S LIFE.
Gottfried Fischer.—Manuscrit (especially interesting for the childhood of Beethoven). Fischer, who died in 1864, was the owner of the house where the Beethoven family lived for two generations. He and his sister Cecilia knew Beethoven as a boy intimately, and have recorded their remembrances of him, which are very valuable, on condition that they are used with some criticism. The manuscript is in the Beethovenhaus at Bonn. Deiters (see below) has published some extracts from them.
F. G. Wegeler and Ferdinand Reis.—Biographie Notizen über Ludwig van Beethoven (especially valuable for the first part of his life), Coblentz. 1838. Re-issued by Dr. Kalischer in 1905.
Ludwig Nohl.—Eine stille Liebe zu Beethoven. Berlin, 1857. (A publication of the Journal of Mlle. Fanny Giannatasio del Rio, who knew and loved Beethoven about 1816).
Anton Schindler.—Beethovens Biographie. 1840. (For the second part of his life).
Anton Schindler.—Beethoven in Paris, Münster, 1842.