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Nov. 20, 1811. We are deucedly obliged to you. We beg you to be careful not to lose your well-earned fame. You are exhorted to pursue the same course, and we remain once more your deucedly attached LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN. 76. TO ZMESKALL. Jan. 19, 1812. I shall be at the "Swan" to-day, dear Z. I have, alas! _too much_ leisure, and you _none_! Your BEETHOVEN. 77. TO ZMESKALL.[1] 1812. CONFOUNDED LITTLE QUONDAM MUSICAL COUNT! What the deuce has become of you? Are you to be at the "Swan" to-day? No? ... Yes! See from this enclosure what I have done for Hungary. When a German undertakes a thing, even without pledging his word, he acts very differently from one of those Hungarian Counts, such as B. [Brunswick], who allowed me to travel by myself--from what paltry, miserable motive who can tell?--and kept me waiting, though he did not wait for me! My excellent little quondam musical Count, I am now, as ever, your attached BEETHOeVERL. Return the enclosure, for we wish to bring it, and something else, pretty forcibly under the notice of the Count. [Footnote 1: The date of this and the following note is decided by the allusion to his compositions written for Hungary (Pesth). See the subsequent letter to Varenna.] 78. TO ZMESKALL. You are summoned to appear to-day at the "Swan;" Brunswick also comes. If you do not appear, you are henceforth excluded from all that concerns us. Excuses _per excellentiam_ cannot be accepted. Obedience is enjoined, knowing that we are acting for your benefit, and that our motive is to guard you against temptations and faithlessness _per excellentiam--dixi_. BEETHOVEN. 79. TO ZMESKALL. DEAR ZMESKALL,-- The well-known watchmaker who lives close to the Freiung is to call on you. I want a first-rate repeater, for which he asks forty ducats. As you like that kind of thing, I beg you will exert yourself on my behalf, and select a really good watch for me. With the most enthusiastic admiration for a man like yourself, who is soon to give me an opportunity of displaying in his favor my particular knowledge of horn-playing, I am your LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN. 80. TO KAMMERPROCURATOR VARENNA,--GRATZ.[1] 1812. If the wish to benefit the poor were not so evident in your letter, I should have felt not a little offended by your accompanying your request to me by the offer of payment. From my childhood, whenever my art could be s
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