Edited, revised and amended from the original English manuscript and the German editions of Hermann Deiters and Hugo Riemann, con- cluded, and all the documents newly translated
CHAPTER III. The Year 1805-Schuppanzigh's First Quar- tet Concerts-First Public Public Performance of the "Eroica"-Pleyel-The Opera "Leonore," or "Fidelio"; Jahn's Study of the Sketchbook-The Singers and the Production-Vienna Abandoned by the Aristocracy as French Advance-Röckel's Story of the Revision of the Opera-Compositions and Publications of the Year
CHAPTER IV. The Year 1806-Repetitions of "Fidelio": A Revision of the Book by von Breuning-Changes in the Opera-The "Leonore" Overtures-A Second Failure Beethoven Withdraws the Opera from the Theatre Marriage of Karl Kaspar van Beethoven-A Journey to Silesia-Beethoven Leaves Prince Lich- nowsky's Country-seat in Anger-George Thomson and His Scottish Songs-Compositions and Publications of