Miscellanea

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Herewith we reinstate our popular Miscellanea column, which was set aside temporarily for no other reasons than the facts that (1) we have had too much material to publish in recent years to leave any room for matters miscellaneous and (2) your editor has been swamped. The result of the temporary hold, however, is an unsteady stack of material suitable for Miscellanea that is nearly four feet tall and collapses as often as the Tower of Babel. We reduce it by two inches here.

As part of our work on the Beethoven Bibliography Database, we often stumble across humorous items. The following "memory" appeared when we indexed the book Erinnerungen an Beethoven (Recollections of …