Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . st careful planning. His pecuni-ary troubles, into which he often fell, were the outcome of his self-sacrifice:heart free of Karl, he could have lived free of care. The sum allowedhim by his patron would, in the simple style of living of his day, havesufficed his own wants without worry. He was always struggling with hisnephews expenses, and with the unreproved deceits of domestics; andnever once during his life was his bitter burden lightened by the fullrecognition of his genius. During the latter part of Beethovens career he was almost forgotten.
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . st careful planning. His pecuni-ary troubles, into which he often fell, were the outcome of his self-sacrifice:heart free of Karl, he could have lived free of care. The sum allowedhim by his patron would, in the simple style of living of his day, havesufficed his own wants without worry. He was always struggling with hisnephews expenses, and with the unreproved deceits of domestics; andnever once during his life was his bitter burden lightened by the fullrecognition of his genius. During the latter part of Beethovens career he was almost had so won all hearts in Vienna with his flowing melodies, soeasily understood, that not till the masters last illness brought him closeto death did people recollect that they possessed a Beethoven. One of thesaddest things about an artists life is the realization of how hard it hasbeen for the beautiful, the earnest, the sublime in music to break theirway, and how far easier come fame and a ringing reward to the com-poser a la
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