Joyce Maier wrote:

>>A very short one and very good: "The Life of Beethoven", by David Wyn
>>Jones, from the series "Cambridge Lives of Composers" (or something close),
>>Cambridge UP.  But it's really just a short introduction.
>
>Yes, good one, I agree, but, alas, also Wyn Jones takes Solomon's fairy
>tale seriously. That's why I avoided mentioning of Kuester and Wyn Jones
>as well.

True, and I should have warned about this, but if I had to omit every book
that agrees with Solomon about the IB, there would be almost nothing left.
The most deplorable thing is that Sieghard Brandenburg, in a footnote in
Henle's edition of LvB's collected letters, claims that Solomon solved the
riddle definitely.

-Margaret Mikulska