CHAPTER XX. Important Letters of 1801--Communications

to Amenda, Hoffmeister and Wegeler--The Composer’s Ill Health--The Beginning of His Deafness--Early Symptoms Described by Himself--Thoughts of Marriage--Indignation Aroused by the Criticisms of the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung--The “Leipsic Oxen”--Gradual Recognition of Beethoven’s Genius--Anton Reicha--Von Breuning’s Relations with Beethoven--Lessons to Ferdinand Ries and Carl Czerny 297