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Excerpt from Beethoven: A Pictorial BiographyBeethoven's meeting with Neefe coincided with the succession of the new Elector, a change - over significant not only for the budding genius, but for the whole city and its cultural life. The popular and energetic new sovereign, Who before his accession had been Grand Master of the Teutonic Order at Mergent heim, came to Bonn fully conscious of his princely responsibilities and determined to further the reforms of his predeces sor. But in doing so he took a more active and generous interest in the social and cultural lives of his subjects. A musically-cultivated man, acquainted even with contemporary compositions (mozart once toyed with the idea of accepting an electoral appointment), and well-versed in literature and philo sophy, Maximilian Franz was convinced that the best way to deal with the new aims and ideals of the time was to adopt an attitude of well-informed toleration towards them. The theatre, music, literature and science Max Franz raised the academy founded by his predecessor to the status of a university in 1786 all found in him a benevolent pa tron, who earned the love of his subjects and the gratitude of those artists whose talents he fostered.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.