New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-19

seeing each other as often as you
wish"
Very reluctantly Beethoven gave his
consent that his nephew should be
come soldier. and he continued ms
solicitude for him, as IS disclosed oy
letters 70 Holz and Won Breunlng. His
first thought was TO send him TO a
military institution and have HIM
graduated as an officer This proved
impracticable. Now he lays down
three conditions as to the cadetship:
lie must not be treated as culprlt.
nor be compelled to live so meanly
as TO preclude his advancement. nor
be too much restricted as to food and
drink. The plans for his disposition
were made. He was 10 be presented
10 Baron von Stutterheim as soon as
he was discharged from the hospital.
take the oath of service the next day
and leave Vienna for lglau, where
Won Stutterheim's regiment was
stationed. within five or six days.
He was discharged as cured on
September 20. BreuninG. who
had assumed the guardianship,
now found himself confronted by a
serious embarrassment Where should
the Young man be sent while the prep
arations for his entry into the mill
tary service were making? Karl did
not want to 90 to his uncle's, nor did
Won Breuning want to send him there.
He frankly told Beethoven the reason:
at he were here. you would talk to
him too much and that would cause
new irritation: for he testified in the
police court that the reason why he
had taken the step was because you
hara sed him too much Beethoven
feared that the magistrate might al
low him to go TO his mothers. and to
forfend against this he wrote two
letters TO that official, man kindly
disposed toward him, named Czapka.
In the first, he wrote:
TRADE AGAINST THE MOTHER.
81 earnestly beg of you. since my
nephew will be well in few days. to
direct that he be not permitted TO
leave the hospital with anybody but
me and Mr.. V. Holz. 1t must not pos
sibly be allowed that he be near his
mother, this utterly depraved person.
Her bad and wickeGy malicious char.
acter. the belief that she often tempted
Karl to lure money from me. the prob
ability that she divided sums with MN
and was also in the confidence OF
Karl's dissolute companion. the notice
which she attracts with her illegiti-
mate daughter, the likelihood that at
his ms he would make the acqualnt-
ance of women who are anything out
virtuous, justify my solicitude and my
request. Even the mere habit of being
in the company of such a person can
not possibly lead young man 10
virtue"
In a second letter he suggests that
the magistrate admOnish the young
man and give him to understand that
he will be under police surveillance
while he is with his uncle. Beethoven
brother was in Vienna. He had re
peated an offer frequently made and
always rudely rejected 10 giJe the
composer a temporary home and his
nephew a harbor of refuge at his
country place. Gneixendorf. Now the
invitation wore a different aspect than
, in former times. Haste was necessary
both on account of the business al
Z fairs of his brother Johann and karls
status. In three days the business Of
! finishing some corrections which had
TO be made in the manuscript copy of
the symphony in ID minor the Ninth,
which was 10 be sent to the King of
Prussia, placing it in the hands OF
Haslinger, who was to have 1t bound,
and writing the letter to the King was
disposed of, and on September % che
two brothers and their nephew set out
/ for GneXendorf.
Copyright. 1914. By II. +. KrehbieD