Beethoven by William Kinderman

Author:William Kinderman [Kinderman, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-03-13T03:00:00+00:00

In eiligster Eile ihr Freund Beethoven

[I ask in haste with haste and through haste, that you ask of Streicher, that we are alone around 12 o’clock today.

In the most hasty haste your friend Beethoven21]

There is a double parody at work here. Beethoven’s other communications to Nanette Streicher often contain the close “In Eil” (“in haste”). This time he comically amplifies that formulation as “eiligster Eile” (“the most hasty haste”). But that is not all. The words “in Eile mit Eile und durch Eile” are a parody of the Ordo Missae, part of the divine service preceding the consecration: “Durch Ihn und mit Ihm und in Ihm wird Dir, Gott allmächtiger Vater, in der Einheit des Heiligen Geistes, alle Ehre und Verherrlichung” (in Latin, “Per ipsum et cum ipso, et in ipso, est tibi Deo patri omnipotenti”). Beethoven unexpectedly twists this solemn exhortation to dramatize the urgency of his wish for a noonday meeting with Frau Streicher. He delivers his message from the high altar, so to speak.

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