His present pieces must convince both connoisseurs and others alike of the unbiased opinion that Beethoven will in time become one of the greatest composers in Europe, thus wrote Joseph Haydn, when informing the Elector in Bonn onthe progress of his pupil in 1793. However, the elector replied that he was already familiar with parts of the Parthia Op. 103 that had been sent as evidence of the composer's progress. Beethoven had apparently only reworked anearlier composition. Nevertheless we must a