THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2373, sig. 109-12/18

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6 94 176 Beethoven waits. He waits for the handle, which is supposed to enter into the broken heart of the poet's brother. The dove no longer bears the deafness. At last he jumps up. He squats them who squat there. He throws the door down into the sole, loud and hard. He drinks the Vind of the dark night like bitter wine. He raises the Fuiuse to the stars. And the stars laugh at him. 2 On the spa promenade of the other day, the two of them see each other again. Goethe, the Leltmann, already greets from far away. But now he will talk, thinks Beethoven. * Program-usik therefore 7 asks the great from veizar. " A word invented by people, Excellency, you yourself - I compose. Others paint. And yet others have a house - a new order of worlds. When I am built, Goethe is silently depressed: fde Empress, who can afford to leave a poet from Goethe's Nang to the Lafel, has built a piece out of revenge for being able to afford everything, which is to be performed at the Teplitz Rurtheater. Will Coethe himself play the leading role in it? Destiny never hears suf trying to make man small before himself and his demand. Goethe will remodel this piece of an empress if he wants to remain Goethe. He may not, on the one hand, conclude, once