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Walter Meyer <[log in to unmask]> wondered:
>There followed the Opus 110, perhaps a "stormier" piece than the Opus 109,
>which may be why I didn't have the reservations about his performance of
>that piece that I did regarding the earlier work. He described the final
>movement as an expression of gratitude over Beethoven's recovery from an
>illness but no allusion was made to the famous "Prayer of Thanksgiving upon
>Recovery from an Illness" in his Opus 132 Quartet. I don't know whether,
>separated as the two works are by over twenty opus numbers, it was the same
>illness.
No, it was not. Opus 110 dates from 1821/22, opus 132 from 1825. It's
true that Beethoven was very ill in both years, due jaundice in 1821/22 and
severe bowel problems in 1825. But in the second half of 1822, 1823 and
the second half of 1824 he was not ill.
Joyce Maier
www.ademu.com/Beethoven
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