GEORGE ALEXANDER FISCHER
Reading edition
Es kann die Spur von meinen Erdentagen Nicht in Aeonen untergehn.
Goethe.
NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1905
THE TROW PRESS, NEW YORK
TO THE MEMORY OF My father
CONTENTS
CHAPTERPAGE
I. Early Promise1
II. The Morning of Life19
III. The New Path30
IV. Heroic Symphony40
V. Fidelio46
VI. The Eternal Feminine58
VII. Victory from Defeat73
VIII. Meeting with Goethe80
IX. Optimistic Trend93
X. At the Zenith of His Fame102
XI. Methods of Composition119
XII. Sense of Humor132
XIII. Missa Solemnis143
XIV. Ninth Symphony162
XV. Capacity for Friendship174
XVI. The Day's Trials184
XVII. Last Quartets191
XVIII. In the Shadows203
XIX. Life's Purport216
WAGNER'S INDEBTEDNESS TO BEETHOVEN224
INDEX237