Bernard Chasan wrote:

>And if Beethoven did not have wealthy and musically sophisticated patrons,
>he still probably would have been in financial straits.  Somehow I do not
>believe that the late quartets were big crowd pleasers.

Is my memory wrong, or do I recall reading long ago that the late Beethoven
Quartets could not be performed during or immediately after Beethoven's
lifetime? That it was Joachim Quartet 50 or so years later which had the
technical competence to perform them.

Tom Connor