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147. WRITTEN IN SPOHR'S ALBUM.[1] Vienna, March 3, 1815. [Music: Treble clef, F Major, 3/4 time. Kurz, kurz, kurz, kurz ist der Schmerz, der Schmerz, e-wig, e-wig ist die Freu-de, ist die Freu-de, ja die Freu-de, e-wig ist die Freu-de. Kurz, kurz, kurz, kurz ist der Schmerz, der Schmerz, der Schmerz, e-wig, e-wig ist die Freu-de, ist die Freu-de, e-wig ist die Freude, e-wig, e-wig ist die Freu-de. Kurz, kurz, kurz, kurz ist der Schmerz, der Schmerz, der Schmerz, e-wig, e-wig ist die Freude, e-wig ist die Freu-de.] Whenever, dear Spohr, you chance to find true art and true artists, may you kindly remember Your friend, LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN. [Footnote 1: From the fac-simile in Spohr's _Autobiography_, Vol. I.] 148. TO HERR KAUKA. Vienna, April 8, 1815. It seems scarcely admissible to be on the friendly terms on which I consider myself with you, and yet to be on such unfriendly ones that we should live close to each other and never meet!!!!![1] You write "_tout a vous_." Oh! you humbug! said I. No! no! it is really too bad. I should like to thank you 9000 times for all your efforts on my behalf, and to reproach you 20,000 that you came and went as you did. So all is a delusion! friendship, kingdom, empire; all is only a vapor which every breeze wafts into a different form!! Perhaps I may go to Toeplitz, but it is not certain. I might take advantage of that opportunity to let the people of Prague hear something--what think you? if _indeed you still think of me at all_! As the affair with Lobkowitz is now also come to a close, we may write _Finis_, though it far from _fine is_ for me. Baron Pasqualati will no doubt soon call on you again; he also has taken much trouble on my account. Yes, indeed! it is easy to talk of _justice_, but to obtain it from others is _no easy matter_. In what way can I be of service to you in my own art? Say whether you prefer my celebrating the monologue of a fugitive king, or the perjury of a usurper--or the true friends, who, though near neighbors, never saw each other? In the hope of soon hearing from you--for being now so far asunder it is easier to hold intercourse than when nearer!--I remain, with highest esteem, Your ever-devoted friend, LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN. [Footnote 1: Kauka evidently had been recently in Vienna without visiting Beethoven.] 149. TO HERR KAUKA. 1815. MY DEAR AND WORTHY K.,-- I have just received from the Syndic Baier
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