Page headers in the original text have been moved above the paragraph to which they relate.

All instances of "i.e." have been regularised to "i.e.".

The following printing errors have been corrected:

• p. 5 "he “doubled" changed to "he doubled"
• p. 6 "performance." changed to "performance.”"
• p. 26 "that that this" changed to "that this"
• p. 30 "difficult one. Beethoven violently" changed to "difficult one, Beethoven violently"
• p. 35 "and the begining" changed to "and the beginning"
• p. 54 the paragraph beginning "Many years after" was indented
• p. 76 "you were!”" changed to "you were!””"
• p. 103 "prefer me?" changed to "prefer me?”"
• p. 123 "in the “house" changed to "in the house"
• p. 153 "much easier.”" changed to "much easier.’”"
• p. 161 "“Weinmonath”" changed to "“Weinmonath"
• p. 171 "diastrous" changed to "disastrous"
• p. 174 "From Zmeskall’s lodgings" changed to "From Beethoven’s lodgings"
• p. 215 "out of place" changed to "out of place."
• p. 219 "acquaintaince" changed to "acquaintance"
• p. 226 "romatic" changed to "romantic"
• p. 227 "you good.”" changed to "you good.””"
• p. 231 "similiar" changed to "similar"
• p. 262 "ZukÜnft" changed to "Zukunft"
• p. 266 "GrÜnder" changed to "GrÜnder”"
• p. 290 "inprovised" changed to "improvised"
• p. 296 "etc.," changed to "etc."
• p. 296 "This seems" changed to "“This seems"
• p. 302 "III “Fidelio”" changed to "III. “Fidelio”"
• p. 313 "in C major" changed to "in C major."
• p. 325 "Farwell" changed to "Farewell"
• p. 327 "passively" changed to "passively."
• p. 342 "out attention" changed to "our attention"
• p. 366 "disatisfaction" changed to "dissatisfaction"
• p. 381 (note) "Zurich" changed to "ZÜrich"
• p. 383 "wereoften" changed to "were often"
• p. 389 "was compossed" changed to "was composed"
• p. 398 "setted" changed to "settled"
• p. 412 "two movenents" changed to "two movements"

The following possible errors have not been changed:

• p. vii "Disappointing Decrease" and p. 170 "Decrease"
• p. 3 "at both: and in this wise:"
• p. 6 and p. 267 "Tremate, empj, tremate"
• p. 151 (note) "Neverthless"
• p. 273 "“urged its completion" has no closing quotation mark
• p. 291 "you up came"
• p. 341 "how how right"
• p. 353 "xThe present"
• p. 415 "was thought"

The text uses the following inconsistently:

• Carl and Karl
• contrabass and contra-bass
• Kozeluch and Koeluch
• Les Ruines de Babylon and Les ruines de Babilone
• nameday and name-day
• P.P. and P. P.
• pianoforte and piano-forte

In addition, there are many inconsistencies in spelling and punctuation in quotations, which have not been changed.

GrÄtz and Gratz are different names.