Andrew Carlan wrote:

>Beethoven acknowledged that he learned everything he knew from Haydn.

In reading Maynard Solomon's biography of Beethoven, Herr B. not only did
not want to acknowledge that he was a pupil of Haydn, but that "he had
never learned anything from Haydn." Mere pique, I'm sure, but it shows B.'s
arrogance/or his insecurity conceiving the "notion that Haydn was envious
of him."

Tom Warren