Galitzin, Nicolas Borissowitsch

GALITZIN, Nicolas Borissowitsch, a Russian Prince who is immortalised by the dedication to him by Beethoven of an overture (op. 124) and 3 quartets (ops. 127, 130, 132). Of his birth nothing is known; he died on his estates in the province Kurski in 1866. In 1804–6 he was in Vienna, and doubtless made the acquaintance of Beethoven and his music at the house of Count Rasomowsky, the Russian ambassador, for whom at that very date Beethoven wrote the 3...