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The Art of Music A Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers and Musicians

Editor-in-Chief

DANIEL GREGORY MASON

Columbia University

Associate Editors

EDWARD B. HILL LELAND HALL Harvard University Past Professor, Univ. of Wisconsin

Managing Editor CÉSAR SAERCHINGER Modern Music Society of New York

In Fourteen Volumes Profusely Illustrated

NEW YORK THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF MUSIC

Beethoven

After the painting by Karl Stieler (Original owned by H. Hinrichsen, Leipzig)