CHAPTER VII. The Year 1825. The Invitation from the

Philharmonic Society of London--The Ninth Symphony Performed at Aix-la-Chapelle--Mass and Symphony Delivered to Schott and Sons--Unpleasant Results of an Attempted Joke on Haslinger--Beethoven and a Copyist--The String Quartet in E-flat Taken Away from Schuppanzigh after a First Performance--Karl Holz--Beethoven Authorizes Him to Write the History of His Life--Early Biographers--Visits of Rellstab, Kuhlau, Smart and Others--Sir George Smart’s Recollections-- Dedication of the Mass in D--Stephan von Breuning--Wegeler asks Beethoven to Defend the Honor of His Mother--The Quartets in A Minor and B-flat 186