Tom Warren wrote:

>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."

I read Andrew Carlan's remark as simply a typo, "Haydn" for "Handel."
Wasn't it Handel whom Beethoven seemed to worship as the ultimate master,
declaring him "the father of us all," or something of that sort?

Nick
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