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

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96 176 - 11 which Beethoven and his supposedly so great art cannot appreciate very much, betrays this W ortlaut: * I met Beethoven in Teplitz. His talent amazed me. Only, he is unfortunately a gan's unbridled personality which is not wrong at all, if it finds the world detestable, but makes it neither for itself nor for others more enjoyable. He is very sorry, however, because his hearing leaves him, which perhaps harms the musical part of his being less than the social part. He, who is already laconic in nature, now doubles it by this lack - nothing more? Nothing more. Flame does not always blow up when two stars meet each other suf the glowing track of their fire road into the mouth of space. 87855