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During the summer of 1811, Beethoven was suffering through hard times. His music was popular, but his health was moribund, and his growing deafness seemed irreversible. In hopes of relief, Beethoven traveled to the northern Bohemian spa city of Teplitz , where he remained for much of the summer. Rather than getting better, his hearing gradually worsened. Still, the trip was worthwhile, for it was in Teplitz that Beethoven met one of the outstanding figures of German culture, the writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The composer (Beethoven) had long well-liked the author. Now, the author had a chance to assess the composer, and he was clearly impressed. Goethe later recalled that time, saying, “I have never met an artist of such spiritual concentration and intensity, such vitality and magnanimity. I can well understand how hard he must find it to adapt himself to the world and its ways.” Goethe’s description of Beethoven as a lofty misfit was thoroughly accurate, but he may
