New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-13

| wig Nohl asserts that the words arrive q
| Vienne had been added" ny SCHNEIDER But
, SCHNEIDER printed the passage in 1915 as
we'll as In 1860. thus EIe otott Fepouse de
mi drdnt son uoDdDe en- Ifdlie. Ar
riree n Vienne ellie cherchot moi ptcnrdnt,
etc. In the edition OF 1860 OF his biography
I of Beethoven he adds the following remark
| zone of the conversation books OF 1903, all
of which are preserved in the Royal Court
Library at Berlin. contains these revela-
tons" II Nohrs assertion IS correct 1t
follows that SCHNEIDER lied and deceived the
kn,1blic being guilty of a forgery which
icaped the eyes Of both jain and Thayer;
| and that furthermore he was guilty of the
| folly of calling attention to the very book
| whose contents he had falsifed. Nohl
asserts further that Giulietta had sought an
interview with Beethoven before her jour
| pey to Italy: on such an act he POUNDS the
| assertion that the young woman, married
only a few months, was already willing to
leave her husband. From circumstances
unknown TO Nohl II Is certain that the visit
did not take place until after her return
TO Vienna in 1922 Thayers argument is
now resumed
I
! Reethoreu-And If | had wished thus To
give my vital powers with my life, what
| would have remained for the noble, the bet
/ ter tthngs)
/ Reverence for the composer and admira-
ton for his compositions must have led
many who will read this 10 the perusal OF
| the constantly accommodating literature OF
which Beethoven and his works are the
subject, and they must remember the prom
iLence accorded to the Guicciardi affair.
VIII they believe that all the established
facts which have ever been made public are
exhausted in these pages already? This is
! literally true all else is but conjecture or
mistake. There is nothing in the present
state Of knowledge on the subject to re-
leve TIE great mass of turgid eloquence
expended upon IT from being described in
one word as-nonsense. The foundation for
a tragedy IS certainly small I'm a case where
the lover writes II is the first time that i
feel as If marriage might make me happy,
and Immediately adds Now, Of course. ]
could not marry because the qualification
Of his ambition was more to him than do
mestic life with the beloved one.
/ I'm November. 1852. jain had an inter.
view with the Countess GallenberS. on so
delicate topic as Beethoven's passion for
her fifty years before reticence was nat
| ural but had the affair in truth been OF
! the importance that others have given 1t
some hint must have confessed It, Yet
| there Is nothing Of the kind ~ his notes
Of the conversation. Here they are:
! Beethoven was her teacher; he had
| his music sent to her and was extremely
| (unendlich) severe until the correct inter
probation was reached down to the small
! est detail. He laid stress upon light
manner of playing. He easily became an
CRY. threw down the music and tore II.
! He would take no pay, although he was
very poor. but linen, under the pretence
! that the countess had sewed II. He also
| taught Princess Odcscalch and Baroness
| Erdmann; sometimes he went To his pupils.
! sometimes they came to him. He did not
! like to play his own compositions nut
would only improvse. At the slightest
disturbance he would get up ana go away.
| Court Brunswick. who played the VIC
| loncello. adored him. as did also his SIS
tiers Therese and Countess Deym.
"'Beethoyen had given her the Countess
! GuicciardD the Rondo in q. out begged
| for its return when he had TO dedicate
| something To the Countess Lichnowsky. and
! then dedicated the Sonata tn her Bee
thoven was very ugly. hut noble, refined
| I'm feeling and cultured. He was generally
poorly clad