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Reminiscences of Beethoven by Caecilia and Gottfried Fischer, "written down by the latter more than a half-century after the Beethoven family had rented a flat in their parents' home. This manuscript is perhaps the most important single fund of information on Beethoven's family background and on his early years in Bonn. Thayer regarded it as somewhat suspect, but Hermann Deiters and Joseph Schmidt-Gorg, each of whom published editions of portions of the manuscript, concluded that wherever parallel evidence was available from other sources, the Fischer memoirs were found to be quite reliable" Solomon, Beethoven (p. xii) (Bonn, BH)