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Sohindler to sho\^ him the MS. of 'Fidelio.'i notice.* He took them away with him, and in
He took it to the piano, and pored over it a two days brought back the
' Liebesbotschaft,'
long time, making out the passages as they Kriegers Ahnung,' and 'Aufenthalt,' set to
'
had been, and compaiing them with what they music. This account, which is perfectly natural
were ; but it would not do ; and at last he broke and consistent, and which Mr. Thayer allows me
out, and exclaimed that for such drudgery he to say he sees no reason to question, has been exaggerated
could see no reason under any circumstances ;
that he thought the music at first just as good * into a desire expressed by Beethoven
himself that Schubert should set these particular
as at last ; and that for his part he had really songs ; but for this there is no warrant. Ten
no time for such corrections. Whether the more quickly followed the three just mentioned ;
amendments to the Great Symphony were a remorseful
and these thirteen—seven to Eellstab's and six-
attempt on Schubert's part to imitate to Heine's words (from the Buch der Lieder ' ' *),
Beethoven and satisfy the demands of his friends were, on Nottebohm's authority, written in
we cannot tell ; but if so they are very unlike August. The last is by Seidl ; it is dated ' Oct.
the pattern.
The autograph of the Eb Mass, in the Bibliothek
1828,' and is probably Schubert's last song.
But it is time to return to the chronicle of his
at Berlin, does not show at all the same life during its last ten months. Of his doings
amount of corrections as that in Ab (see p. in January we know little more than can be
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