Note 10 — FIRST PERIOD. FROM HIS BIRTH TO THE YEAR 1800.
Reading edition
M. Ries was treated in the same manner, as he told me, while under Beethoven's tuition. "I played," said Ries to me, "while Beethoven composed or did something else; and it was very rarely that he seated himself by me and so remained for half an hour." Ries tells a different story in his publication.