WorkLudwig van Beethoven

letter of regal devotion to Cherubini

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Documented 1846

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Lives of the Great Composers

“Lives of the Great Composers”

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“What melody of Beethoven's is more melodious, than his letter of regal devotion to Cherubini, or the transports with which he calls out on first hearing the compositions of Schubert; " Wahrlich in dem Schubert wohnt ein gottlicher Funke.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p235

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p235; page given is to the 1869 reprint.