CHAPTER II. The Year 1804--Schikaneder Sells His

Theatre and is then Dismissed from the Management-- Beethoven’s Contract Ended and Renewed by Baron Braun--The “Sinfonia Eroica”--Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia--Quarrel between Beethoven and von Breuning--The “Waldstein” Sonata--Sonnleithner, Treitschke and Gaveaux--Paër and His Opera “Leonora”--“Fidelio” Begun--Beethoven’s Growing Popularity--Publications of the Year 22