THE biographical details - the traits and talents, the foibles and frailties - have already been sketched out for posterity: the joy in the theoretical (perhaps most compellingly expressed by the propensity to re-work the same material more or less unceasingly); the devout and ineradicable Teutonism; the dependency on a succession of patrons, with the occasional instance of what might be termed creative friction (including that awkward moment when dispute proved prelude to dismissal); the difficult periods of strife, even...
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