CHAPTER VIII. Jerome Bonaparte’s Invitation--A New

Plan to Keep Beethoven in Vienna--The Annuity Contract-- Ries’s Disappointment--Farewell to Archduke Rudolph in a Sonata--The Siege and Capitulation of Vienna--Seyfried’s “Studies”--Reissig’s Songs--An Abandoned Concert--Commission for Music to “Egmont”-- Increased Cost of Living in Vienna--Dilatory Debtors--Products of 1809 135