CHAPTER III. The Year 1805--Schuppanzigh’s First Quartet

Concerts--First Public Performance of the “Eroica”--Pleyel--The Opera “Leonore,” or “Fidelio”; Jahn’s Study of the Sketchbook--The Singers and the Production--Vienna Abandoned by the Aristocracy as French Advance--Röckel’s Story of the Revision of the Opera--Compositions and Publications of the Year 41