Quartet, the, 98, 191, 194,
  Last quartets, 96, 100, 158, 191-192, 194, 195,
  Mysticism of, 96, 195,
  Psychological qualities of, 195, 218,
  Spirituality of, 195,
  Variations in, 157,
  Written in great mental trouble, 194. 
Quartet, in A minor, 187,
  in C# minor, 195, 199, 203,
  its dedication, 208,
  in Bb, cavatina of, 194,
  new finale of, 203,
  see chamber-music, also Rasoumowsky quartets.

Rasoumowsky, Count, 59, 63, 65, 108, 192,
  Entertains Empress of Russia, 108. 
Rasoumowsky quartets, 65-66, 192,
  Adagio of the second, 65. 
Religion and General-bass, 219. 
Religious sentiment, the, 219. 
Renunciation, 163. 
Requiem Mass, 140, 160, 161, 209. 
Ries, Ferdinand, 44, 62, 82, 83, 84, 135, 180,
  Pupil of Beethoven, 80,
  Prolific composer, 85,
  efforts for Beethoven while in London, 181-182. 
Ries, Franz, 12, 17, 82. 
Rochlitz, 92, 153, 156. 
Romberg, 16, 105. 
Rossini, 79, 153, 166,
  calls on Beethoven, 139. 
Ruins of Athens, 155. 
Russia, Emperor of, 36, 107, 108, 154,
  Empress of, 107, 108.

Saint-Saens, 232. 
Saint-Simon, and the strenuous life, 206. 
Salieri, 105. 
Satanas in the kitchen, 185. 
Saxony, King of, 154, 213. 
Second period, works of, 40,
  characterized by gayety, 100. 
Second Symphony, 26, 36, 37,
  Larghetto of, 36. 
Seebald, Amalie, 87, 88,
  facsimile of letter to her, opp. page 88. 
Sehnsucht (Goethe’s), 142. 
Seidl, Anton, 166. 
Sensenman, the, 116. 
Seventh Symphony, 95, 96, 109,
  Dance element in, 99,
  First performance of, 105,
  Coda of Vivace of, 97,
  Hungarian peasant dance in, 96,
  Weber’s strictures on, 159. 
Scherzo, 33, 34, 132, 133,
  Peculiar to Beethoven, 133,
  developed by Beethoven, 132,
  makes sport of humanity in, 133-134. 
Schiller, 16, 131, 141, 148, 165. 
Schindler, 59, 88, 127, 136, 152, 154, 156-158, 168, 169, 171, 176,
     186, 188, 203, 205, 206, 207, 209, 210, 213,
  Beethoven’s biographer, 179. 
Schroeder-Devrient, 155, 159. 
Schopenhauer, 22, 77, 143, 174, 229, 236,
  and humor, 134. 
Schubert, 8, 127, 177, 206, 210, 211,
  Reverence of, for Beethoven, 178,
  Calls on Beethoven, 178,
  Songs of, 206. 
Schuman, 136, 232. 
Schuppanzich, 168, 176, 206. 
Schott, music publishers, 208, 209. 
Scott, Walter, 134,
  Kenilworth, 209. 
Seyfried, 22, 64, 135, 212. 
Shakespeare, 13, 68, 134, 139, 141, 223, 225,
  Comedies of, 68,
  the Tempest, 152,
  a Universal man, 227,
  Wagner’s archetype in youth, 227. 
Siegfried, 231. 
Sight playing, from Ms., 63, 64. 
Sixth Symphony (Pastoral), 14, 73, 78-79, 95, 122,
  Dance tunes in, 78,
  Dramatization of, 79,
  Nature-poem, a, 78, 79,
  Storm in, 78, 79. 
Socrates, 161. 
Solitary, Beethoven, the (quoted), 227.