Word: pepys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considered God his only equal. He lived precariously, striding along the Nietzschean tightrope. For all his self-sufficiency Beethoven could "never see a pretty face without being smitten." But a love-affair, he boasted, never lasted longer than seven months. He loved three cousins, his aristocratic pupils, Tesi, 25, Pepi, 21, and passionate Giulietta, 16. "by turn and all together." June Prime. The great eight-noted motive of the Eroica, clue to Beethoven's per- sonality, battles, loves, multiplies, resurrects itself, dances, dies. The Eroica is "one of the Great Days of music. It inaugurates...