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BEETHOVEN: THE MAN AND THE ARTIST,

AS REVEALED IN HIS OWN WORDS

By Ludwig van Beethoven

Edited by Friedrich Kerst and Henry Edward Krehbiel

This edition of “Beethoven: the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words,” was translated into English and published in 1905 by B.W. Huebsch. It was also republished unabridged by Dover Publications, Inc., in a 1964 edition, ISBN 0-486-21261-0.

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