The Author and the Publisher Introduction CHAPTER I.—I8oo.—Portrait of Beethoven in his thirtieth year II.—The Eroica III.—The Appassionata IV.—Leonora Breuning wrote on 2nd June,I8o6 To the Reader Appendices: NOTE I.—Beethoven’s Deafnss II.—A Beethoven Sketch –Book of I8oo III.—The Brnsvik Sisters and their Cousin of the Moonlight REFERENCES.