BEETHOVEN AND THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY
The Royal, Philharmonc, Society—which was founded in 1813 and still flourishes —has a proud memory or two in respect of Beethoven. For one thing, it commissioned him, in 1822, to write a symphony. He thereupon wrote the immortal Ninth '"Choral'' Symphony, one of the most wonderful of all his works. The original score, in Beethoven's writing,, is now in the British Museum. And, further, the Philharmonic Society's gift of £IOO to him when he was on his death-bed was of such value to him that his letter of thanks to the Society expresses his deepest gratitude £pr it and promises in return.—a Tenth Symphony! That, alas! was never to be written.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 3 February 1930, Page 7
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