259. “Man, help yourself!”

(Written under the words: “Fine, with the help of God,” which Moscheles

had written at the end of a pianoforte arrangement of a portion of

“Fidelio.”)

260. “If I could give as definite expression to my thoughts about my

illness as to my thoughts in music, I would soon help myself.”

(September, 1812, to Amalie Sebald, a patient at the cure in Teplitz.)

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