Ries also records a humourous scandal of an occasion when he found Beethoven flirting desperately with a fair unknown; Ries sat down at the piano and improvised incidental music to Beethoven's directions- "Amoroso," "a malinconico" and the like.
"The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1"
Rupert Hughes
The droll priest, who in all the sweetest words you can imagine was playing the Amoroso to both sisters at once, as well as frequent applications to the good wine, at length restored me to good humour, so that we spent a very pleasant evening in perfect concord and gaiety.
"Weird Tales. Vol. I"
E. T. A. Hoffmann