CHAPTER III.

THE SYMPHONY C MINOR.--THE PASTORALE, AND THE SEVENTH, SYMPHONIES.

The Pastorale--Meaning of the Apassionata--Beethoven’s Letter to His “Immortal Loved One”--His Own Opinion of the Apassionata--Thinks of Writing Operas--Court Composer--Overture to Coriolanus--The Mass in C, op. 86--His Sacred Music--The Fidelio In Prague--Music for Goethe’s Faust--“Power, the Moral Code”--Character of His Works about this Period--Intercourse with the Malfattis--The Cello Sonata, op. 69--Improvement in His pecuniary Circumstances--Joseph Bonaparte--Vienna fears to lose Him--Contemplated Journey to England--The Seventh Symphony--His _Heirathspartie_--His Letter to Bettina--His Estimate of Genius 82-121