"Friends to Music" who commissioned Beethoven to write an Oratorio in 1815.
Schindler is of opinion that the repeated performance of the Abbé Stadler's
heroic Oratorio, _Die Befreiung von Jerusalem_, was the cause of the
Society in 1818 bespeaking, through Hauschka, "An oratorio of the heroic
order."]


258.

TO THE ARCHDUKE RUDOLPH.

1819.

I have the honor to send the masterly variations[1] of Y.R.H. by the
copyist Schlemmer, and to-morrow I shall come in person to wait upon
Y.R.H., and much rejoice at being able to serve as a companion to my
illustrious pupil on the path of fame.

[K.]

[Footnote 1: The letters 258 and 259, allude to the pianoforte variations
composed by the Archduke Rudolph and dedicated to his instructor.]


259.

TO THE ARCHDUKE RUDOLPH.

Jan. 1, 1819.