[75] The treble of the tenth bar of the second section has been frequently printed a third too high.

[76] This Sonata in E flat (Op. 78) was dedicated to Mrs. Bartolozzi, wife of the famous engraver, and to her Haydn also dedicated one in C major, marked as Op. 79,—­a bright, clever and showy work, in which the influence of Clementi is sensibly felt.  The development section of the opening Allegro, together with the return to the principal theme, is interesting.  The Adagio, in the key of the subdominant, is one of Haydn’s best, while the final movement (Allegro molto) is full of life and humour.

[77] “Clementi is a charlatan, like all the Italians” (Letter to his sister, June 7, 1783).

[78] It is thirty-five years since the fine one in B minor was performed at the Popular Concerts; and eighteen, since a Clementi sonata has appeared on a Popular Concert programme.

[79] The three Sonatas in E flat, F minor, and D, dedicated to Maximilian Frederick, Elector of Cologne, and published at Speyer in 1783, are not here taken into account.

[80] In mentioning any of them we shall first give the Breitkopf & Haertel numbers and then the Holle numbers in brackets, so that either edition may be referred to.

[81] At the time of their production Dussek was not born, Hummel was still a child, and Beethoven an infant “mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms,” if, indeed, the Beethovens were able to afford the luxury of a nurse.  Even Emanuel Bach had not published any of his Leipzig Collections, neither had Haydn written his best sonatas.  As Clementi was not only the survivor of Beethoven, but also his predecessor, a reminder as to the state of the sonata world, when Clementi first entered it, is not wholly unnecessary.

[82] London Symphony in E flat, No. 8 (No. 1 in Breitkopf & Haertel Catalogue).

[83] See p. 187 concerning Beethoven’s conversation with Schindler.

[84] Schindler, Biography of Beethoven, 3rd ed. vol. ii. pp. 223-4.

[85]

HAMBURGH, June 12, 1801.

MR. CLEMENTI, MON CHER CLEMENTI,—­

J’ai recu avec un extreme plaisir votre lettre, aussi que L’Autoscript dans celle de ma femme, je suis extremement touche du desir que vous temoignez de me revoir a Londres, mais etant une fois dans le Continent je ne puis resister au desir de faire une visite a mon Pere, d’autant plus qui je Lui ai deja ecrit que je viendrai pour Sure le voir cette etee, je scais par Ses lettres qu’il attend ce moment comme la plus grande, et peut-etre, la derniere jouissance de sa Vie; tromper dans une pareille attente un Viellard de 70 ans, ce serait anticiper sur sa mort, d’ailleurs en arrivant en Angleterre tout de suite je ne ferais egalement que manger mon argent, ou bien celui de ma femme jusqu’a l’hiver prochain, aussi ma resolution est prise de faire le Voyage de la Boheme; voire en passant Dresde,