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Identifier: beethovencritica00indy (find matches)
Title: Beethoven; a critical biography
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Indy, Vincent d', 1851-1931
Subjects: Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
Publisher: Boston, Mass., The Boston music company New York, G. Schirmer
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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; and his remark to Hiller: Vox populijvox Dei, is a proverb that I have never taken seriously. Henceforward the Master will find the vast capital toonarrow for him: A superior man ought not to be con-founded with the ordinary citizens — and I have been!And he burrows, and frowns on society. Nobody sees himnow. He makes a solitary exception in favor of his graciouslord Archduke Rudolph, to whom he gives several lessonsa week, and who, through this portion of Beethovens life,seems to cover his master with his protecting shadow. A great noble of charming mien, enthusiastic and modest,of an almost feminine delicacy. Ever indulgent to theerratic humor of the poor deaf man, listening to his diatribesagainst the Austrian state, which he accuses of every mis-deed from the unsatisfactory work of the servants to thebad draught of the chimneys, the archduke levels beforeBeethoven, at the imperial palace, all barriers of etiquette.We shall see how he puts himself to the inconvenience of ( 78 )
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ARCHDUKE RUDOLPH OF AUSTRIA (1788-1831) Cardinal Archbishop of Olmiitz (Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna) LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN looking up, in person, lodgings for Beethoven at Baden, andexerts his influence to find homes for poor musicians recom-mended by him. At the advent of the Finanz-Patent of1811 and the bankruptcy reducing the paper florin to one-fifth of its face value, he, with fine generosity, orders thathis master shall be paid his full stipend, although not obligedby law to do so, constraining by his example the other par-ties to the contract and thus, calming Beethovens im-patience, intervening in the proceedings undertaken againstKinsky so as to obtain a happy solution. His testimony isto sustain Beethoven against the calumnies of his sister-in-law when she drags herself to the very feet of the emperor,and against the perfidy of the Jew, Pulai, who boasted thathe would ruin the musician in the eyes of the Court byimputing atheistic sentiments to him. ^^His Imperial H

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