New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-20
The Love Affairs of
Beethoven, the Composer
Search Conducted in the Light
Cast by Surviving Letters
of the Musician.
CHAPTER II.
-.,v-,sht. 1911. by Charles scribner's Sons.
Continued from last sunday.

,-.,v,,sht 1911. by Charles scribner's Sons.
Continued from last sunday.
.,,,ong the many persons before whom
-. various times SCHNEIDER kindly placed
- original for examination were Otto
~, and the present writer. neither OF
80, ever discovered any other reason 10
,.,oss his paper TO have been intended
80. tho Countess Guicciardi than Schindler's
.,,ect,ire and the grounds upon which he
80 formed IT, Bearing in mind that the
~Tis,ence OF this paper was utterly I'M
,.-ovn 10 either Breuning or SCHNEIDER until
.rs- the death Of It's writer. who alone
oonld have impaired It's history, the mental
-,ocess by which il came 10 be described
=, ,ba words lust Quoted-'three autograph
,o,,.rs written by Beethoven 70 his Gull
et,a from a bathing-place In Hungary is
-arfectlv easy TO trace; thus
I'm the first Of the three parts or letters
1,ae,boven speaks Of the very disagreeaDle
,or~,ev which he had performed with four
,os,-borses and Esterhazy with eight N
.ne second he writes OF the mail coach
.ror, here 10 X and again. AS l am TAX
,,c the baths. L must 90 70 bed Now OF
,ne qlS nlaces in the Austrian postal guide
,.nosa names begin with X large number
are in Hungary; the bathing places in that
t,,rdon are also numerous; and Ester
h,z,,s possessions were there; hence
scbindIers assumption that Beethoven
,r-ote from an Hungarian watering place
which may stand for the present HIS con-
SECURE as 20 whom he wrote was. or
.o,-sa suggested by his conversation IN
,ss2 mon the Countess Gallenberg. This
IrrA
hin I'm make that It has been accepted
unorest.oned and even unsupported Tor
,b.r-- wears. must nevertheless be tested.
THE document presents three incomplete
dates the year being omitted in each.
July 8. IN the morning
Evening. Monday. July s.
Good morning. on July g.
"a reference TO the almanacs Of 49, lSV1'
Iu7 and 1872 shows that July fell upon
Monday in those years The year l'so 49,
of course. excluded. for Julia Guicciardl
had not then completed her eleventh year
and we turn at once 10 1901
..--,e main subjects Of letter written 10y
pee-boven 20 WeEeler on June %. 1891, were
his diseases and the modes Of treatment
adopted by his medical advisers; 10 when
10 adds his desire for his friends counsel
Wege.er being a physician OF eminent
sbili-v and skill. II was Wegelers reply
which drew forth a second letter on NO.
ver,er IS. only four and a half months
sfte~ tie first. which continues the subject
with equal minuteness OF detail. II now
tbe re3der will turn back and carefully
sshesrse the two he will see that all pos
shuitv OF Journey 10 some distant water
ing Mace. recurring the use OF four post
horses. whether IN Hungary or elsewhere
IN the interval between those letters. -
absolutely excluded by their contents. The
conclusion is unavoidable that the diary
was not written in 1901 But may there
not be an error either in the day OF. the
month or OF the week in the words, Even
ing. Monday. July s.? II there be. the in
oui-v is extended 20 the years 1900 and lSo2.
"On July 6. 1900 the Guicciardi family
had hardly reached Vienna from Trieste.
But suppose Julia had previously been sent
-bither TO complete her education, and thus
had become known 10 Beethoven. In That
case what s 10 be thought OF guardians
and friends who could allow her such
liberty orr rather license. that she, al the
age of fifteen and three-quarters years
should already have formed the relations
necessarily implied by the language or me
diary with d man twice her age? What
zoo must be thought Of Beethoven? Grant
INK HIM t7 have been, as Magdalena Will
mann and Others said. half crazy'-tne
man certainly was not fool! The year
1900 mav also boo safely discarded
GAS Oh l01 10 is superhuous 20 say more
than that in the next chapter viii be
found part of a letter by Beethoven, dated
Vienna. JULY 20. 1902 His stay al the
Lath must indeed have been short # he
reached 10 with four post-horses on the 9TH
and lis lu Vienna again writing letters on
tie 18Th. In 1888 July fell on Wednesday
Eu there was mo- such error IN the date.
5eerHove1 gives the day Of the month
three times u twenty-four hourS-twice on
the str and once on the 1th. A mistake
here is neouueIvabe The day OF the
week indeed is written but once; but then
81 Monday and sunday and Monday are
precselv The two days Of the week which
one most rarely or never mistakes. But
that part of the document which has the
cate Evening. Monday, July s. contains
certain words which are decisive. This
par' is "a postscript 10 the writing of the
morning and is written, he says, because
70 Was too late for the post on that day.
and Mondays Thursdays the only days on
which the mail coach goes from here 20