Sick Of It All - Cease Fire

All Beethoven's letters are cited in a new edition by the publishing house Music in 2011–2015; some documents are cited from the complete collection of Beethoven correspondence, published in 1996-1998 under the auspices of the Beethoven House in Bonn. Excerpts from Beethoven’s memoirs are cited, unless otherwise indicated, in the USA translation of the book by Franz Gerhard Wegeler and Ferdinand Riesz published by the Classic XXI Publishing House (2nd edition 2007), as well as in German collections: a two-volume memoir under edited by Friedrich Kerst (1913) and a similar two-volume edition edited by Klaus Martin Kopitz and Rainer Kadenbach (2009). Translations of both prose and poetic texts belong to the author of the book, except when another translator is indicated. Several fictionalized episodes included in the text of the book,based on known facts or at least not in conflict with them.