Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . BEETHOVENS a painting by Caspar Benedict Beckenkamp. Engraved by E. Heinemann. with new material. He had thought of a Romulus. There is a letterwritten to the singer Mildner Hauptmann, January 6, 1816: You would<Jo a great service to me and the Grerman theater if you would beg Baronde la Motte Fouque in my name to find a subject for an opera which wouldbe suitable for yourself. I should like to write something of this kind forthe Berlin theater; for, with our niggardly management, I shall never beable to bring out a new opera here.


Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . BEETHOVENS a painting by Caspar Benedict Beckenkamp. Engraved by E. Heinemann. with new material. He had thought of a Romulus. There is a letterwritten to the singer Mildner Hauptmann, January 6, 1816: You would<Jo a great service to me and the Grerman theater if you would beg Baronde la Motte Fouque in my name to find a subject for an opera which wouldbe suitable for yourself. I should like to write something of this kind forthe Berlin theater; for, with our niggardly management, I shall never beable to bring out a new opera here. What splendid pictures the thoughtof a second opera by Beethoven conjures before us! German art pos-sesses great treasures among its works, but Fidelio will always be thegreatest. A comprehensive review of the condition of Our modern dramatic stagedoes not reveal any recent advance, and in one respect — singing — it has 109 110 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN obviously retrograded. We have no singers in the real meaning of theword, for which we mus


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