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Heiligenstadt Testament

Heiligenstadt Testament (Postscript) Inferred

InferredFuller quotes without naming the document — “So take I then a sad farewell of thee” — words from the postscript to Beethoven’s Heiligenstadt Testament.

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Documented 1846

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Lives of the Great Composers

“Lives of the Great Composers”

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“For ray brothers Carl and -Beethoven. " 0 ye men, who esteem or declare me unkind, morose, or misanthropic, what injustice you do me; you know not the secret causes of that which bo seems.”

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p267; page given is to the 1869 reprint.

“So take I then a sad farewell of thee. Yes ! the beloved hope, which I brought hither, to be cured at least to a certain point, must now wholly leave me.”

Inferred Fuller quotes without naming the document — “So take I then a sad farewell of thee” — words from the postscript to Beethoven’s Heiligenstadt Testament.

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p270; page given is to the 1869 reprint.

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.