Note 6 — FIRST PERIOD. FROM HIS BIRTH TO THE YEAR 1800.
Reading edition
When M. Brockhaus announced the eighth edition of the "Conversations-Lexicon," I wrote to him, on the 17th of February, 1833, calling his attention to that fable, and requesting him to omit the passage relative to Beethoven's parentage in the new edition, which he complied with.