Wegeler

Wegeler is the original authority for the anecdote, the point of which depends upon the fact that the printed variations were a composition by Beethoven.

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Were it a possible supposition, we should imagine it to be a thing manufactured to sell, -- and, indeed, in some such manner as this; The labors of Lenz taken without acknowledgment for the skeleton of the work; Wegeler, Ries, Schindler, and Seyfried at hand for citations, where Lenz fails to give more than

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Max Franz is confounded with Max Friedrich, -- a singular mistake, since Wegeler writes the name in full.

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He relates from Wegeler, that Beethoven wrote the finale when suffering violently from colic.

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Wegeler does, but of a period five years before Ries came to Vienna; moreover, he relates it in relation to Beethoven's dislike to being urged to play in mixed companies, -- the fact having no relation whatever to Van Swieten's weekly music-parties.

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(Vienna, June 29, to Wegeler, in Bonn.) (In 1895 Beethoven said to his pupil Ries, "Fare well in the Rhine country which is ever dear to me," and in 1896 wrote to Schott, the publisher in Mayence, about the "Rhine country which I so long to see again.") 17.

Beethoven the Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words Kerst, Friedrich 1904

(Vienna, June 29, 1800, to Wegeler, in Bonn, writing of his return to his native land.) 186.

Beethoven the Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words Kerst, Friedrich 1904

(To Wegeler, who had expressed wonder at Beethoven's rapid primavista playing, when it was impossible to see each individual note.) 76.

Beethoven the Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words Kerst, Friedrich 1904

It was probably the beauty and tender reciprocation of Giulietta that inspired Beethoven to write to Wegeler in 1801:

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 1903

Wegeler has alluded to the fact that Beethoven's love affairs were always with women of high degree.

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 1903