CHAPTER IV.

THE MISSA SOLEMNIS AND THE NINTH SYMPHONY.

Resignation--Pecuniary Distress--Napoleon’s Decline--The Battle-Symphony--Its Success--Wellington’s Victory--Strange Conduct--Intellectual Exaltation--His Picture by Letronne--The Fidelio Before the Assembled Monarchs--Beethoven the Object of Universal Attention--Presents from Kings--The Liederkreis--Madame von Ertmann--Romulus and the Oratorio--His “Own Style”--Symphony for London--Opinion of the English People--His Missa Solemnis--His Own Opinion of it--Its Completion--Characteristics--The Ninth Symphony 122-162