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E Rudolph.) ON HIS OWN DISPOSITION AND CHARACTER So open-hearted and
straightforward a character as Beethoven could not have pictured himself
with less reserve or greater truthfulness than he did during his life.
Frankness toward himself, frankness toward others (though sometimes it
went to the extreme of rudeness and ill-breeding) was his motto. The
joyous nature which was his as a lad, and which was not at all averse to
a merry prank now and then, underwent a change when he began to lose his
hearing. The dread of deafness and its consequences drove him nearly to