He had to earn his living as well as he could, by giving lessons or doing copying.
The young man did not hesitate, however, in setting out for St. Petersburg, where he entered the university, hoping to gain a livelihood by giving lessons.
I have already, in the biographical part of this work, alluded to Beethoven's repugnance to giving lessons.
Any restraint experienced by Beethoven in his intercourse with the Archduke can only have originated in his own aversion to giving lessons.
Alexander Muller soon disappeared from our midst, as he became more and more engrossed by domestic calamities, bodily infirmities, and the mechanical drudgery of giving lessons by the hour.
He had chiefly maintained himself in early youth by his singing, and afterwards by giving lessons, and had gained considerable reputation as a violinist, so much so that Archbishop Leopold took him into his service in the year 1743.
He not only cut down to their lowest point the expenses of his housekeeping with Nannerl, but he undertook once more "the very uncongenial work of giving lessons," badly paid and fatiguing as it was.
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