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Scan 29
Franz Schubert; a musical biography, 1866
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1Another of Schubert's contemporaries gives an account of his practising with friends during hours of relaxation, and performing Beethoven's works with them. "I represented the audience," says this writer, "there was no fire, and the room was frightfully cold." That the material circumstances of Schubert at this time were anything but comfortable is proved among other things, by a letter to his brother, dated November 24th, 1812:—"I will say at once what lies on my heart, and so come sooner to my object, while I spare you long phrases. I have thought much of my situation, and while it is good on the whole, there are many things in which it might be improved. You know from experience that one often likes to eat a roll and one or two apples, all the more when one has a small dinner, and then eight hours and a half to wait for a scanty supper. This wish has so often forced itself upon me, that I must nolens volens make a change. The few groschen which I receive the
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