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| Ludwig, What is your favorite recording of your late string quartets? |
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| I can only answer belatedly and with
appologies, in the following manner as I understand your question, for my mind is
solely absorbed in a large composition, and daily I am confronted and tormented by
my friends who flee because of my temper. It must be understood that I cannot turn
my mind to anything else. My daily researches in latin which are necessary take me
to the Prince's library and are my only outings and I must even quarrel because my
food is not eaten. My last quartets were written quite some time ago now, and some as you may know for the Russian ambassador His Excellency count Rasumovsky, who took the second violin and who employed in his household my dear, good Ignaz Schuppanzigh, hahaha, my very fat friend, but supreme violinist. Beethoven |