WorkLudwig van Beethoven

Symphony

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“Beethoven's Symphony was the only right thing the city of the Puritans had for her”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.