oman's _char a
banc_, which, however, including everything, costs 8 florins 36 kreutzers.

Do not forget anything, and be careful of your health.

390.

TO HERR NAeGELI.

Vienna, September 16, 1824.

MY ESTEEMED FRIEND,--

I gladly comply with your wish that I should arrange the vocal parts of my
last Grand Mass for the organ, or piano, for the use of the different
choral societies. This I am willing to do, chiefly because these choral
associations, by their private and still more by their church festivals,
make an unusually profound impression on the multitude, and my chief object
in the composition of this Grand Mass was to awaken, and deeply to impress,
religious feelings both on singers and hearers. As, however, a copy of this
kind and its repeated revision must cause a considerable outlay, I cannot,
I fear, ask less than 50 ducats for it, and leave it to you to make
inquiries on the subject, so that I may devote my time exclusively to it.

I am, with high consideration,

Your obedient

BEETHOVEN.

391.

TO SCHOTT,--MAYENCE.

Baden, near Vienna, September 17, 1824.

The Quartet [Op. 127, in E flat major] you shall also certainly receive by
the middle of October. Overburdened by work, and suffering from bad health,
I really have some claim on the indulgence of others. I am here entirely
owing to my health, or rather to the want of it, although I already feel
better. Apollo and the Muses do not yet intend me to become the prey of the
bony Scytheman, as I have yet much to do for you, and much to bequeath
which my spirit dictates, and calls on me to complete, before I depart
hence for the Elysian fields; for I feel as if I had written scarcely more
than a few notes of music.

I wish your efforts all possible success in the service of art; it is that
and science alone which point the way, and lead us to hope for a higher
life. I will write again soon. In haste, your obedient

BEETHOVEN.

392.

TO HAUSCHKA.

Baden, September 23, 1824.

MY DEAR AND VALUED FRIEND,--

As soon as I arrive in town, I will write Bernard's Oratorio [see No. 257],
and I beg you will also transmit him payment for it. We can discuss when we
meet in town what we further require and think necessary, and in the
mean-time, I appoint you High and Puissant Intendant of all singing and
humming societies, Imperial Violoncello-General, Inspector of the Imperial
_Chasse_, as well as Deacon of my gracious master, without hous