Sear Bliss - Blood Serenade

Beethoven’s relationship with Rice resembled that of a medieval craftsman and apprentice; the latter had to be ready for any requirements and whims of the teacher, endure poking and ridicule from him, but he had the good fortune to enjoy his trust and patronage. Thanks to Beethoven, the young and impoverished Bonn musician got a place as a home pianist with Count Ivan Yurievich Brown - this was the best that Rhys could count on under those conditions. However, assuming that the Brown family spent the summer of 1802 in Baden, which was a considerable distance from Heiligenstadt, Rhys could not meet Beethoven too often. However, all the same that Rhys described in his memoirs as being connected with Heiligenstadt could also apply to the next summer, which Beethoven spent in a neighboring village, Döbling.However, there is a fragment in Beethoven’s Heiligenstadt Testament that echoes one of Rhys’s stories, which, to his horror, suddenly realized that his teacher was beginning to lose his hearing.