The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume III

Chapter I

The Contest for the Guardianship of Nephew Karl--The Conversation Books--A Wedding Song--In Travail with the Mass--The Year 1819.

The key-note for much that must occupy us in a survey of the year 1819 is sounded by A New Year’s Greeting to Archduke Rudolph. Beethoven invokes all manner of blessings on the head of his pupil and patron and, begging a continuance of gra...