CHAPTER XII. The Year 1812--Reduction of Income from

the Annuity--The Austrian “Finanzpatent”--Legal Obligation of the Signers to the Agreement--First Performance of the Pianoforte Concerto in E-flat--A Second Visit to Teplitz--Beethoven and Goethe--Amalie Sebald--Beethoven in Linz--He Drives His Brother Johann into a Detested Marriage--Rode and the Sonata Op. 96--Spohr--The Seventh and Eighth Symphonies--Mälzel and His Metronome--A Canon and the Allegretto of the Eighth Symphony 211