Note 14 — THE STANDARD CANTATAS.
Reading edition
My dear Friend
,—Beethoven is dead, and Berlioz alone can revive him. I have heard your divine composition, so worthy of your genius, and beg you to accept, in token of my homage, twenty thousand francs, which will be handed to you by the Baron de Rothschild on presentation of the enclosed.—Your most affectionate friend,
Nicolo Paganini. Paris, Dec. 18, 1838.