ch had sprung in to
Beethoven from truest artistic apprehension and been nurtured by
enforced introspection and philosophic reflection."

("Music and Manners," page 237. H. E. K.)

1. "'Tis said, that art is long, and life but fleeting:--Nay; life is
long, and brief the span of art; If e're her breath vouchsafes with gods
a meeting, A moment's favor 'tis of which we've had a part."

(Conversation-book, March, 1820. Probably a quotation.)

2. "The world is a king, and, like a king, desires flattery in return
for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse--it will not submit to
the mould of flattery."

(Conversation-book, March, 1820. When Baron van Braun expressed the
opinion that the opera "Fidelio" would eventually win the enthusiasm of
the upper tiers, Beethoven said, "I do not write for the galleries!" He
never permitted himself to be persuaded to make concessions to the taste
of the masses.)

3. "Continue to translate yourself to the heaven of art; there is no
more undisturbed, unmixed, purer happiness than may thus be attained."

(August 19, 1817, to Xavier Schnyder, who vainly sought instruction from
Beethoven in 1811, though he was pleasantly received.)

4. "Go on; do not practice art alone but penetrate to her heart; she
deserves it, for art and science only can raise man to godhood."

(Teplitz, July 17, 1812, to his ten years' old admirer, Emilie M. in H.)

5. "True art is imperishable and the true artist finds profound delight
in grand productions of genius."

(March 15, 1823, to Cherubini, to whom he also wrote, "I prize your
works more than all others written for the stage." The letter asked
Cherubini to interest himself in obtaining a subscription from King
Louis XVIII for the Solemn Mass in D).

[Cherubini declared that he had never received the letter. That it
was not only the hope of obtaining a favor which prompted Beethoven to
express so high an admiration for Cherubini, is plain from a remark made
by the English musician Cipriani Potter to A. W. Thayer in 1861. I found
it in Thayer's note-books which were placed in my hands for examination
after his death.

One day Potter asked, "Who is the greatest living composer, yourself
excepted?" Beethoven seemed puzzled for a moment, and then exclaimed,
"Cherubini." H. E. K.]

6. "Truth exists for the wise; beauty for the susceptible heart. They
belong together--are complementary."

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