New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-20

some day be accepted by an author 90
liberal mind and indeed eminent artistic
activity. one who has not kept aloot from
the deeper fountains OF German thought
and culture. particularly in an art ike
music. and who knows how to grasp the
true German spirit: who is capable Of
swinging himself up to the higher regions
where mind freely creates beaI5y and sets
it forth TO mankind as its own ideal ana
essence that IL is the lovely custom OF
artists 10 keep their souls in foUcn with
nature and its impulses. as mysterious -
they are arbitrary, which gives them the
power 10 present these impulses and forces
in their art works. who is no narrow
minded Philistine DESTROYS Of sitting In
righteous historical judgment concerning
the finest and most individual workings OF
human nature. who is fully emalCip3tcd
from the moral seriousness which we s'e
In Jahn's Mozart from whom the muse
Of art conceals her lovely countenance--
that famous moral zeal which considers
man merely from the standard ~ duty;
who never in his writings creates the i'm
preston OF pedantic examination into
moral worth and a certain unpleasant
ethical criticism, as is the case also In
Jahn's Mozart" who is also free from
certain traditional nsrrowness OF view, who
is ashamed Of the human elements Of hu'
mainly. IT'S natural weaknesses, and there
fore cannot comprehend how 4. Ii possible
10 expose the incidental errors of great
T. O.. Il real man: who keeps aloof from
conventional pedantry or even prudsrJ and
always invites the most unboind1f pub
lefty
"A writer who Is prepared 20 fepres"'t
such ethical principles as those just set
forth would also he capable OF asserting
that even in 1876 Beethovcn's letter WAS adj
dressed TO the Countess Guicciltdi already
the wife OF Count Gallenberg. Moreover a
more natural solution OF the difficulties
could scarcely be found IL IL -luld but BE-
proved, or accepted as true. that the COM
poser belonged to those exalted musical
geniuses who are no longer subject To
those once accepted notions - morals aha
ordinary duties: and who refuss TO permit
such narrow-minded ethics - BE- lirted 10
the real laws Of existence l. Beethoven
had been man OF this character what
more would we need 10 believe that In tn
summer OF 1896 he and the lady We're i'm
patiently awaiting the momen, when they
might steal away from husband and chill
dren and thus attain their purpose TO live
together heart closely pressed TO heart'
Here a single objection viii suffice:
Count GalIenberg and his wife had At this
time long been in Naples. No! This dis-
grace does not attach 10 the lans OF Bee
thoven.
Those who have thought /; worth while
10 follow the discussion thus tar VIII now
understand why go much time ard labor
were spent on removing all douot as 10 the
dates Of the letters OF June %. 1901, ana
.Iuly 9Th and 7th. 1904, and this after
long time had passed during which there
had never arisen a doubt IN he mind 0t
the writer. For II these dates remain hNed
the extended romantic structures wnlch
have been reared on the SANDY founda'oh
~ conjecture must fall In ruins
THE conclusions reached ny tkc study >
seem az natural as they are satisfactory /
and indubitable Young Beethoven los
sessed OF a temperament susceptible ana
excitable In the highest degree and en-
lowed not only with eXtraorilrnrf genius /
but Oeaving out of consideration MS pnysi-
cal nisfortunesl with other attractive
ouallties-the great pianist. the beloved
teacher. the highly promising composer
admired and accepted gladly in the highest
circles OF society Of the metropohs-this
Reethoven. as Wegeler expresses H. was
always in love and generally in ne nish's'
degrse, As he took on years, however /
hls passions cooled, and IL is a truth OF
daily observation that at m" Last a strong
and lasting attachment can cbtalh mas
terry over the most vacllla,ing and hc"ie
lover According 10 our conviction lhis
was also the case with Beethoven, ana
most assuredly the famous !ovc-lettcr was
addressed 10 the object OF a wise ana non
orable love which had taken control over
atm II this he true. and II he was 50
violently in love IN 1895, n follows that the
references In the Gleichenstein tnrreSp"nd-
Ance which their editor applies 10 coih-
nletelv developed girl Of fourteen Yeas OF
aye, in 1907. applied 10 an entirely dinereht
Individual. and this, too, is the conviction
Of the author
"rbe quotations introduced above are
.ror, an article I'm the 'Neue Zeitschrift fir
uusik, December l5-22. 1871. from which
mis- is also taken: Woe 10 our develop
mert n sucn hdIroN -iliii'"o''' ~
raised into laws of life This would reduce
us from free and good men 10 sucn
wretched taiors and cobhlers as our dear
fatherland has Matched too many OF IN
every one Of its hooks and crannies' ana
who stand to-day in the way Of the furthe:
development Of art. just as they are unable
IN appreciate the genius OF our great ar
fists. who prompted by profounder con-
ception ~ humanity have made purer
and higher development Of art possible II
+. obvious 10 every reader that the author
Of that article had in mind A then recent
occurrence which had shocked the religious
and outraged the moral feeling Of the pub
lie. and that the passages cited are from
labored defence of the guilty parties. IL
was this. an artist I'm a great German cap