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Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven
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life will soon be spun out.

In haste, your

BEETHOVEN.

N.B. I wish you to buy me a quarter of a yard of green wax-cloth, green on
both sides. It seems incredible that I have not been able to get anything
of the kind from these _green_ people here. It is far.... [illegible].

[X. brought the Trio in C minor (Op. 1, No. 3) to show to Beethoven, having
arranged it as a quintet for stringed instruments (published by Artaria as
Op. 104). Beethoven evidently discovered a good many faults in the work;
still, the undertaking had sufficient attractions to induce him to correct
it himself, and to make many changes in it. A very different score was thus
of course produced from that of X., on the cover of whose work the genial
master, in a fit of good humor, inscribed with his own hand the following
title:--

A Terzet arranged as a Quintet,
by _Mr. Well-meaning_,

translated from the semblance into the reality of five parts, and exalted
from the depths of wretchedness to a certain degree of excellence,

by _Mr. Goodwill_.

Vienna, Aug. 14, 1817.

N.B. The original three-part score of the Quintet has been sacrificed as a
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