The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I
CHAPTER VI. Beethoven Again--His Studies Interrupted--A
Period of Artistic Inactivity in Bonn--The Young Organist Indulges in a Prank--A Visit to Vienna--Mozart Hears the Youthful Beethoven Play--Sympathetic Acquaintances--Death of Beethoven’s Mother--Association with the von Breuning Family--Some Questions of Chronology Discussed 85