CHAPTER XVIII. The Year 1818--Gift of a Pianoforte

from John Broadwood--The Composer Takes Personal Charge of His Nephew--His Unfitness as Foster-father and Guardian--Abandonment of His Projected Visit to London--The Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde’s Oratorio--The Nephew and a Mother’s Legal Struggle for Possession of Her Son--The Case Reviewed--The Predicate “van” and Beethoven’s Nobility--Archduke Rudolph Becomes Archbishop of Olmütz--Work on the Mass in D, Ninth Symphony and Grand Trio in B-flat 390