Crossword-Solution: CLARINETTIST 12 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Hans the German waiter, Franz the clarinettist in the little street band, is locked up as a possible spy.

The clarinettist, in a passage where the beautiful subject of the finale has already entered, made by mistake a repetition of eight bars.

But when the concert was over, the artists recollected only too well the honourable titles by which Beethoven had publicly addressed them; and, as if the matter had but that moment occurred, became excessively angry, and vowed never to play again when Beethoven was in the orchestra, &c., &c." That the clarinettist did make a mistake is true, but that Beethoven behaved in the outrageous way described was most positively denied by all who were present on the occasion, including the conductor, Franz Clement.

Rockstro, "looked very worn and nervous; yet he would suffer no one to relieve him, even in the scrutiny of the orchestral parts, which he himself spread out on some benches beneath the windows on the left-hand side of the room, and insisted upon sorting out and examining for himself." The late Henry Lazarus, the eminent clarinettist, related to me a personal incident in connection with this first London rehearsal.

The irate proprietor now makes his appearance armed with a long broom, with which he thrashes the clarinettist.