To
the Elector Maximilian Franz, Bonn
Vienna, November 23, 1793
Anderson v1 ppg 12 - letter #8
Most worshipful,
most excellent and most gracious
Elector and Lord!
My
sole endeavor is to render myself absolutely worthy of Your Electoral
Excellency's highest favour. With this in view I have employed
this year all the powers of my soul for the benefit of music in
order to be able during the coming year to send to Your Electoral
Excellency something that will reflect your magnanimous treatment
of me and your sublime character in general more clearly than
what is being sent to Your Electoral Excellency by Herr Haydn.
In the confident hope that Your Eletoral Excellency will not deprive
me of the favour you have once bestowed upon me I remain with
the deepest reverence Your Electoral Excellency's most humble
and most obedient