Smetana, Dr., surgeon at Vienna; gained considerable popularity by his treatment of deafness.

“Society of Friends to Music in the Austrian States” at Vienna.

Sonntag, Henriette, the celebrated singer.

Spiecker.  Dr., of Berlin.

Spohr.

Stadler, Abbe Maximilian (born 1748, died 1833), a composer, and the friend of Mozart; an opponent of the Beethoven school of music (see Schindler’s “Biography,” i. 80; ii. 109).

Standenheim, a celebrated physician in Vienna.

Stein, pianoforte manufacturer at Vienna, brother of Frau Nanette
Streicher.

Steiner, S.A., music publisher in Vienna, succeeded by T. Haslinger.

Sterkel, Franz Xaver, a pleasing pianist and composer, whom Beethoven visited at Aschaffenburg in 1791, and greatly astonished by his pianoforte playing.

Stoll, a young poet at Vienna.

Streicher, Andreas, the well-known friend of Schiller’s early days.  He married, when in his nineteenth year, Nanette Stein, only daughter of the celebrated pianoforte manufacturer at Augsburg, whom he took with him to Vienna, where he first became teacher of the pianoforte, and afterwards, by the assistance of his wife, who had made herself acquainted with her father’s art, founder of the celebrated Streicher pianoforte manufactory.  Schindler, in his “Biography,” i. 187, speaks of the interest taken by Frau Streicher in Beethoven’s domestic matters.

Stumpff, harp manufacturer in London, an admirer of Beethoven’s works.

Swedish Academy of Music.

Theatres: 
  Josephstadt;
  Kaernthnerthor;
  “An der Wien.”

Tiedge, the poet of “Urania,” and also of the song “An die Hoffnung,” so much admired by Beethoven, and several times set to music by him.

Tonie, Antonie, of Birkenstock, daughter of a family in Vienna from which Beethoven received great kindness from the first period of his residence in that capital, and in which, in the year 1810, Bettina lived, who afterwards became the wife of B.A.  Brentano, a merchant in Frankfort, to whom Beethoven was greatly indebted.

Toeplitz, in Bohemia.

Trautmannsdorf, Prince, High Chamberlain.

Travels and travelling projects of Beethoven. See also London.

Treitschke, stage poet at Vienna.

Unger, the celebrated singer.

University, the, of Vienna.

Ursulines, convent of the, at Gratz, in Styria, music supplied by Beethoven in aid of.

Varenna, Kammerprocurator at Gratz.

Varnhagen von Ense.

Vering, Dr., army surgeon at Vienna.

Vienna, Beethoven’s settled residence from the year 1792, of which, however, he never spoke favorably.

Wawruch, Dr., clinical professor, Beethoven’s last surgeon.

Weber, Carl Maria von.

Weber, Gottfried, theorist and composer.