CHAPTER VII. The Year 1808--Johann van Beethoven

Collects a Debt and Buys an Apothecary Shop in Linz--Wilhelm Rust--Plans for New Operas--Sketches for “Macbeth”--Imitative Music and the “Pastoral” Symphony--Count Oppersdorff and the Fourth Symphony--A Call to Cassel--Organization of Rasoumowsky’s Quartet--Appreciation of Beethoven in Vienna: Disagreement with Orchestral Musicians--Mishaps at the Performance of the Choral Fantasia 114