Nephew Karl is in his Uncle’s apartment in Vienna in the morning before his English class, which starts at noon. He quotes the title of the Rossini cavatina “Di tanti palpiti,” which had been inserted into Uncle Ludwig’s second Akademie concert in an effort by the theater manager to increase …
Ludwig and Nephew Karl go into Vienna today to visit the Streichers and their piano shop. They meet the son, Johann Baptist Streicher, who shows them his new patent pianos. His parents, Nannette and Johan Andreas Streicher are also present. For the most part Karl writes on behalf of all …
Likely this morning, Beethoven writes a short penciled note to his friend, Nannette Streicher, of the family of piano makers. She is also in Baden. He is interested in seeing her son Johann Andreas’s new patent instrument in Vienna. “Dear Friend, I am ready to see this instrument with you …
Beethoven remains in Baden, taking the baths and working on the quartet op.127 and walking in the countryside. In the late afternoon, he reads yesterday’s Intelligenzblatt in a coffee house. He makes notes of a house for sale in Baden. He also writes down that metal and glass objects are …
Beethoven probably today writes an errand list while in Baden. To Brother: fine postal paper.+Key in Vienna.+Barber’s razor. After walking and working, he relaxes in a coffee house and reads yesterday’s Wiener Zeitung. He copies down the statutory price for a pound of beef, being 7 kreuzers C.M. He seems …
Beethoven likely returned to Baden from Vienna last night, and works on the quartet op.127 and walks and takes the baths, but does not have any conversations in the latest conversation book. The Wiener musikalische Zeitung for today (Nr.70) at 280 slightly expands upon the advertisement a few days ago …
Conversation Book 74 starts being used, likely today. This book has 32 leaves. Leaves 15v and 17v are blank, but crossed out with Beethoven’s red crayon used for editing with a large “X” across each of the pages. Beethoven returns to Vienna about today from Baden. He makes a shopping …
Sometime about now, music publisher Anton Diabelli writes Beethoven an undated letter, addressed to him in Baden at the Schloss Gutenbrunn. Diabelli is pleased to acknowledge Beethoven’s letter of August 24, in which he agreed to write a grand sonata for piano four hands. He asks that it be done …
Carl Czerny visits Beethoven in Baden. The exact date is not known, but there are some clues from his brief but intriguing account of the visit. As related to Otto Jahn, “In 1824 I went with Beethoven once to a coffee-house in Baden where we found many newspapers on the …
Beethoven responds from Baden to publisher Heinrich Probst in Leipzig today. He acknowledges receipt of Probst’s letter of August 10th. “Because the bad weather has delayed my baths, I have to stay here for 8 days longer, after which I will immediately hand over all the works in the City.” …
Assuming his plans remain consistent with his statement to Nanette Streicher in his letter to her yesterday, Beethoven returns to Vienna today. Beethoven continues his to-do list. He begins with a repeat of an entry he made on Wednesday, August 25: +To [attorney Johann Baptist] Bach concerning the re-printing.+Karl to …
Beethoven is back in Baden and writes to his longtime friend Frau Nannette Streicher, who is also in Baden. “I received your invitation with pleasure and will accept it. I cannot be a burden to you today or tomorrow, as I must go to Vienna despite the bad weather. Your …
Beethoven is in Vienna today, and makes a list of errands to run. This list will be continued on Friday, August 27. Today’s list includes a number of advertisements copied from today’s Intelligenzblatt. To [attorney Johann Baptist] Bach concerning the re-printing here. [A reference to a pirated edition? Or the …
Beethoven writes today from Baden to publisher Anton Diabelli about his request for a grand four-hand piano sonata, which he had brought up again earlier this month. [The prospective sonata, which was never written, has been a topic of discussion between them for several years now.] Beethoven says it wasn’t …
Beethoven writes today from Baden to his patron Archduke Rudolph, fulfilling the request made to him by Hans Georg Nägeli a few weeks ago. “I’m alive! How? The life of a snail. The unfavorable weather keeps setting me back again and again, and here in Baden it is impossible to …
Against his doctor’s advice, Carl Maria von Weber (needing money) accepts the offer from Charles Kemble to write an opera for Covent Garden. The result will be his final opera, Oberon, J.306. Weber will travel to England to better learn the language for purposes of understanding the English libretto.
Mainz music publisher B. Schott’s Sons writes to Beethoven today. They let him know that a new bill of exchange has been sent to the Fries bankers in Vienna as of August 12, and asks for the manuscripts for the Missa Solemnis and the Ninth Symphony. Brandenburg Letter 1863. The …
Today, Carl Maria von Weber receives an offer from Charles Kemble to write a new opera for Covent Garden. Kemble also asks Weber to come to London to produce his operas Der Freischütz and Preciosa. Weber thinks about the offer for three days. He also seeks out his doctor’s advice, …
The Munich correspondent for the Wiener Zeitschrift writes in today’s issue, Nr.99, at 864 about the successes of Wilhelmine Schröder (now Mad. Devrient) of Dresden, defending the honor of German opera in Beethoven’s Fidelio and as Emmeline in Der Schweizer Familie by Joseph Weigl this spring. [Schröder had starred in …
Music publisher Heinrich Albert Prost writes to Beethoven from Leipzig today, explaining his conduct somewhat to Beethoven. Probst acknowledges receipt of Beethoven’s now-lost letter to him of August 9. If Beethoven still does not believe that their arrangement is satisfactory, he may nevertheless hand over the manuscripts to Loydl & …