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With respect to his playing with you, when he has finally acquired the proper mode of fingering, and plays in right time, and gives the notes with tolerable correctness, you must only then first direct his attention to the mode of execution; and when he is sufficiently advanced, do not stop his playing on account of little mistakes, but only point them out at the end of the piece. Although I have myself given very little instruction, I have always followed this system, which quickly forms a musician; and this is, after all, one of the first objects of art, and less fatiguing both to master and scholar. In certain passages, like the following,--
[Music: Treble clef, sixteenth notes.]
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Schlemmer, for many years Beethoven's copyist until 1823.
Schlemmer, a gentleman living in the Alleengasse, auf der Wieden, in whose house Beethoven placed his nephew Carl (not to be confounded with the copyist of the same name).
Schlesinger, Moritz, music publisher in Berlin and Paris.
Schmidt, Dr., army surgeon in Vienna.
Schoberlechner, Franz, pianist.
Scholz, music director in Warmbrunn.
Schรถnauer, Dr., Court advocate and barrister at Vienna, appointed by Beethoven's brother Carl testamentary trustee to his nephew--an intriguing lawsuit-pettifogger.
Schott, music publisher in Mayence.
Schrรถder, Wilhelmine, the great singer.
Schuppanzigh, Ignaz, born 1776, died 1830, the celebrated violinist, whose extraordinary corpulence was a frequent subject of Beethoven's witticisms; he was, however, the first who fully appreciated Beethoven's music for stringed instruments, which he performed in a masterly manner. Resided in Russia from 1816 to 1823.
Schweiger, Joseph Freiherr von, chamberlain to the Archduke Rudolph.
Schweizer, Ed. Friedrich von, chamberlain to the Archduke Anton, an admirer of Beethoven's music and subscriber to the address of February 1824.
Sebald, Auguste, the singer.
Seibert, Dr., surgeon in Vienna, Beethoven's operator.
Seyfried, Ignaz Ritter von, the well-known composer, publisher of the spurious edition of "Studies by Ludwig van Beethoven," Kapellmeister in Vienna.
Shakespeare, deeply read and greatly admired by Beethoven.
Siboni, a distinguished tenorist in Vienna.
Sight, Beethoven's weakness of.
Simrock, Court musician (horn player) to the Elector of Cologne, and music publisher in Bonn, a friend of Beethoven's early days.
His son, the present proprietor of the business in Bonn, at Vienna in the summer of 1816.
Sketch by Beethoven.
Smart, Sir George, music publisher in London, a great admirer of Beethoven's music.
Smetana, Dr., surgeon at Vienna; gained considerable popularity by his treatment of deafness.
"Society of Friends to Music in the Austrian States" at Vienna.
Sonntag, Henriette, the celebrated singer.
Spiecker. Dr., of Berlin.
Spohr.
Stadler, Abbรฉ Maximilian (born 1748, died 1833), a composer, and the friend of Mozart; an opponent of the Beethoven school of music (see Schindler's "Biography," i. 80; ii. 109).
Standenheim, a celebrated physician in Vienna.
Stein, pianoforte manufacturer at Vienna, brother of Frau Nanette Streicher.
Steiner, S.A., music publisher in Vienna, succeeded by T. Haslinger.
Sterkel, Franz Xaver, a pleasing pianist and composer, whom Beethoven visited at Aschaffenburg in 1791, and greatly astonished by his pianoforte playing.
Stoll, a young poet at Vienna.
Streicher, Andreas, the well-known friend of Schiller's early days. He married, when in his nineteenth year, Nanette Stein, only daughter of the celebrated pianoforte manufacturer at Augsburg, whom he took with him to Vienna, where he first became teacher of the pianoforte, and afterwards, by the assistance of his wife, who had made herself acquainted with her father's art, founder of the celebrated Streicher pianoforte manufactory. Schindler, in his "Biography," i. 187, speaks of the interest taken by Frau Streicher in Beethoven's domestic matters.
Stumpff, harp manufacturer in London, an admirer of Beethoven's works.
Swedish Academy of Music.
Theatres:
Josephstadt;
Kรคrnthnerthor;
"An der Wien."
Tiedge, the poet of "Urania," and also of the song "An die Hoffnung," so much admired by Beethoven, and several times set to music by him.
Tonie, Antonie, of Birkenstock, daughter of a family in Vienna from which Beethoven received great kindness from the first period of his residence in that capital, and in which, in the year 1810, Bettina lived, who afterwards became the wife of B.A. Brentano, a merchant in Frankfort, to whom Beethoven was greatly indebted.
Tรถplitz, in Bohemia.
Trautmannsdorf, Prince, High Chamberlain.
Travels and travelling projects of Beethoven. See also London.
Treitschke, stage poet at Vienna.
Unger, the celebrated singer.
University, the, of Vienna.
Ursulines, convent of the, at Gratz, in Styria, music supplied by Beethoven in aid of.
Varenna, Kammerprocurator at Gratz.
Varnhagen von Ense.
Vering, Dr., army surgeon at Vienna.
Vienna, Beethoven's settled residence from the year 1792, of which, however, he never spoke favorably.
Wawruch, Dr., clinical professor, Beethoven's last surgeon.
Weber, Carl Maria von.
Weber, Gottfried, theorist and composer.
Wegeler, Dr., of Bonn, an early friend of Beethoven.
Weigl, Joseph, composer of the "Swiss Family," Kapellmeister at Vienna.
Weinmรผller, singer at the Kรคrnthnerthor Theatre.
Weiss, tenor player at Vienna.
Westphalia, Beethoven offered the appointment of Kapellmeister to the King of, in 1808.
Wieden, a suburb of Vienna, on several occasions Beethoven's residence.
Wieland.
Wills, Beethoven's.
Wolf, Dr., advocate in Prague.
Zelter, the song composer and friend of Goethe, director of the Academy of Vocal Music at Berlin.
Zmeskall von Domanowecz, Court secretary at Vienna, one of Beethoven's earliest friends in the Imperial city, a good violoncello player and also a composer.
Zulehner, music publisher at Mayence.
Zurich.
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