Our dear list owner wrote:

>...Solomon, who is particularly adept at intertwining historical fact
>with his own fantasies of Beethoven - unfoirtunately, he doesn't warn
>the reader when he moves from one to the other).  -Dave]

Yes, very true, Dave!

In contrast to this Andrew Carlan wrote:

>Maynard is a nice man (so far as I know).  So why would he fib?

Yes, good question.  I'm pondering over this regrettable fact already for
years.  Maynard obviously isn't able to understand that his fantasies about
Beethoven are only his fantasies and not supported by facts.  Maybe for
unconscious reasons?

But Solomon is right about Beethoven's words that he "had learned nothing
from Haydn".  Those words were the result of some "problems" between master
and pupil after Beethoven had refused to call himself openly "pupil of
Haydn" on the printed score of his opus 1.

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Joyce Maier ([log in to unmask])