of
art, from whom Beethoven received an order for his last quartet.

Gebauer, Franz Xaver, founder of the "Concerts Spirituels" at Vienna.

Gerardi, Mdlle.

Girowetz, Court musical director at the "Burgtheater."

Giuliani, a celebrated guitar player at Vienna.

Glaeser, Beethoven's copyist from the year 1823.

Gleichenstein, Baron, of Rothweil, near Freiburg in Breisgau, a friend of
Beethoven at Vienna. He left Vienna about the year 1815, and only revisited
that city once afterwards, in 1824.

Gneixendorf, the estate of Beethoven's brother Johann, near Krems, on the
Danube, which Beethoven visited, accompanied by his nephew, in the autumn
of 1826.

Goethe.

Gratz, in Styria.

Grillparzer.

Guicciardi, Countess Giulietta, Beethoven's "immortal beloved."

Hammer-Purgstall, the distinguished Orientalist in Vienna.

Handel.

Haslinger, Tobias, music publisher at Vienna.

Hauschka, Vincenz, Government auditor, a friend of Beethoven.

Heiligenstadt, near Vienna, a favorite summer residence of Beethoven,
where, among other works, the "Pastoral Symphony" was written by him.

Hetzendorf, a favorite suburban residence near Vienna.

Hoffmann, Th. Amadeus.

Hofmeister, Kapellmeister and music publisher, first in Vienna, and
afterwards in company with Kuehnel in Leipzig (now Peters's Bureau de
Musique). _See also_ Peters.

Holz, Carl, Government official at Vienna, an accomplished violinist, born
in 1798; became a member of the Schuppanzigh Quartets in 1824, and
afterwards director of the Concerts Spirituels in that capital; a Viennese
of somewhat dissolute habits, by whom even the grave master himself was at
times unfavorably influenced.

Homer, especially the Odyssey, a favorite study of Beethoven.

Hoenigstein, a banker in Vienna.

Hummel, Johann Nepomuk, the celebrated composer and pianist, a pupil of
Mozart, and for some time Beethoven's rival in love matters, having married
the sister of the singer Roeckel, to whom Beethoven also was much attached
(_see also_ Schindler's "Biography," i. 189).

Hungary, Beethoven there.

Imperial Court at Vienna.

Imperial High Court of Appeal, letter from Beethoven to the.

Jenger, Chancery officer in the Imperial War Office at Vienna, a passionate
lover of music.

Kalkbrenner.

Kandeler, testimonial from Beethoven in favor of.

Kanne, F.A., at Vienna, highly appreciated in his day as a poet, composer,
and critic, an intimate friend of Beethoven