Frank wrote:Thanks Daniele, I am still curious about the original. If anyone has it....
I had reported it above:
Ismaele wrote:Just today I was reading Thayer at the point where he reports some (alleged?) letters from Bettina to Goethe, including one in which she reports that Beethoven said these words to her (I am using the original English text): "and I am the Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken".
