and choruses, the words being those
of Schiller's immortal "Ode to Joy," in the style of my pianoforte Choral
Fantasia, only of much greater breadth. The price is 600 florins C.M. One
condition is, indeed, attached to this Symphony, that it is not to appear
till next year, July, 1825; but to compensate for this long delay, I will
give you a pianoforte arrangement of the work gratis, and in more important
engagements you shall always find me ready to oblige you.

363.

TO SCHINDLER.

1824.

Frau S. [Schnaps] will provide what is required, so come to dinner to-day
at two o'clock. I have good news to tell you,[1] but this is quite _entre
nous_, for the _braineater_ [his brother Johann] must know nothing about
it.

[Footnote 1: This no doubt refers to a letter from Prince Gallizin, March
11, 1824:--"I beg you will be so good as to let me know when I may expect
the Quartet, which I await with the utmost impatience. If you require
money, I request you will draw on Messrs. Stieglitz & Co., in St.
Petersburg, for the sum you wish to have, and it will be paid to your
order."]

364.

TO HERR V. RZEHATSCHEK.

1824.

MY WORTHY HERR V. RZEHATSCHEK,--

Schuppanzigh assures me that you intend to be so kind as to lend me the
instruments required for my concert;[1] thus encouraged, I venture to ask
you to do so, and hope not to meet with a refusal when thus earnestly
soliciting you to comply with my request.

Your obedient servant,

BEETHOVEN.

[Footnote 1: It seems highly probable that this concert is the celebrated
one in the spring of 1824, when the Ninth Symphony and a portion of the
Grand Mass were performed.]

365.

TO THE HIGH CHAMBERLAIN PRINCE TRAUTMANNSDORF.[1]

I am deeply indebted to your Highness for your invariable politeness, which
I prize probably the more from Y.H. being by no means devoid of sympathy
for my art. I hope one day to have the opportunity of proving my esteem for
your H.

[Footnote 1: Enclosed in a note to Schindler, who was to apply for the
great _Redoutensaal_ for the concert on April 8, 1824.]

366.

TO COUNT MORITZ LICHNOWSKY.[1]

Insincerity I despise; visit me no more; my concert is not to take place.

BEETHOVEN.

[Footnote 1: The originals of these three well-known notes were found by
Schindler on the piano, where Beethoven usually left things of the kind,
which he intended his amanuensis to take charge of. Lichnowsky,
Schuppanzigh, and Schindler had all met