Like Beethoven, I come from the Bonn region.
Now I live in Salzburg where Woelfl was born.
Our paths cross here in Vienna.
Beethoven and Woelfl met in a villa at Schönbrunn Palace Park
for a pianistic test of strength.
On my album "L'affaire d'honneur" I revive
this musical honour quarrel.
Vienna in the winter of 1798,
earwitness Ignaz Ritter von Seyfried:
"A quite peculiar pleasure arose for the unprejudiced, unbiased observer
in the silent reflection of both patrons:
Prince Lichnowsky of Beethoven, Baron von Wetzlar of the Woelfl Party.
As they listened to the performances of their protégés in an excited attention,
applauding glances sent in.
Mechanical skill may have made it difficult, perhaps impossible,
to bestow the palm of victory on one of the fighters."
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