CHAPTER IV. The Year 1823--The Roman Ritual and

the Mass in D--Subscriptions Asked from Royal Courts--Incidents of the Appeal--Goethe and Cherubini Enlisted as Agents--A Medal from the King of France--Further Negotiations with Publishers and Societies--Operatic Projects--Consideration of Grillparzer’s “Melusine”--The Diabelli Variations--Summer Visitors--An Englishman’s Story--Weber and Julius Benedict--Ries and the Ninth Symphony--Franz Liszt and Beethoven’s Kiss 89