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Title: Ludwig van Beethoven

Author: Pitts Sanborn

Editor: Herbert F. Peyser

Release date: October 17, 2015 [eBook #50242]

Language: English

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Beethoven on the bank of a stream.

Ludwig van

Beethoven

By PITTS SANBORN

NEW YORK

Grosset & Dunlap

PUBLISHERS

Copyright 1939 and 1951 by

The Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York

EDITOR’S NOTE

The late Pitts Sanborn wrote this booklet under the title Beethoven and his Nine Symphonies and stated in a short preface that it made “no claim to originality and no secret of its indebtedness to the masterly treatises on the same subject.” I have left Mr. Sanborn’s pages on the symphonies virtually intact and have on