CHAPTER II. End of the Litigation over the Guardianship of

the Nephew--A Costly Victory--E. T. A. Hoffmann--An Analytical Programme--Beethoven’s Financial Troubles--Adagios and English Hymn-Tunes--Stieler’s Portrait--Arrested as a Vagrant--Negotiations for the Mass in D begun with Simrock--The Last Pianoforte Sonatas--Compositions of the Years 1820 and 1821 24