wever, the first who fully appreciated Beethoven's music for
stringed instruments, which he performed in a masterly manner. Resided in
Russia from 1816 to 1823.

Schweiger, Joseph Freiherr von, chamberlain to the Archduke Rudolph.

Schweizer, Ed. Friedrich von, chamberlain to the Archduke Anton, an admirer
of Beethoven's music and subscriber to the address of February 1824.

Sebald, Auguste, the singer.

Seibert, Dr., surgeon in Vienna, Beethoven's operator.

Seyfried, Ignaz Ritter von, the well-known composer, publisher of the
spurious edition of "Studies by Ludwig van Beethoven," Kapellmeister in
Vienna.

Shakespeare, deeply read and greatly admired by Beethoven.

Siboni, a distinguished tenorist in Vienna.

Sight, Beethoven's weakness of.

Simrock, Court musician (horn player) to the Elector of Cologne, and music
publisher in Bonn, a friend of Beethoven's early days.

His son, the present proprietor of the business in Bonn, at Vienna in the
summer of 1816.

Sketch by Beethoven.

Smart, Sir George, music publisher in London, a great admirer of
Beethoven's music.

Smetana, Dr., surgeon at Vienna; gained considerable popularity by his
treatment of deafness.

"Society of Friends to Music in the Austrian States" at Vienna.

Sonntag, Henriette, the celebrated singer.

Spiecker. Dr., of Berlin.

Spohr.

Stadler, Abbe Maximilian (born 1748, died 1833), a composer, and the friend
of Mozart; an opponent of the Beethoven school of music (_see_ Schindler's
"Biography," i. 80; ii. 109).

Standenheim, a celebrated physician in Vienna.

Stein, pianoforte manufacturer at Vienna, brother of Frau Nanette
Streicher.

Steiner, S.A., music publisher in Vienna, succeeded by T. Haslinger.

Sterkel, Franz Xaver, a pleasing pianist and composer, whom Beethoven
visited at Aschaffenburg in 1791, and greatly astonished by his pianoforte
playing.

Stoll, a young poet at Vienna.

Streicher, Andreas, the well-known friend of Schiller's early days. He
married, when in his nineteenth year, Nanette Stein, only daughter of the
celebrated pianoforte manufacturer at Augsburg, whom he took with him to
Vienna, where he first became teacher of the pianoforte, and afterwards, by
the assistance of his wife, who had made herself acquainted with her
father's art, founder of the celebrated Streicher pianoforte manufactory.
Schindler, in his "Biography," i. 187, speaks of the interest taken by Frau
Streicher in Beethoven's dom