CHAPTER V. The Year 1824--The Symphony in D

Minor--Its Technical History--The Choral Finale and Schiller’s “Ode to Joy”--First Performance of the Work and Portions of the Mass--An Address to Beethoven--Laborious and Protracted Preparations for the Concert--A Financial Failure--Beethoven’s False Accusations against Friends and Helpers Drive Them from the Dinner-Table 144