BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Friday, June 11, 1824

Beethoven makes a couple appearances in today’s Wiener Zeitung, Nr.133. At 560, Anton Diabelli & Co. repeats its advertisement for the Vaterländischer Künstlerverein, the two volumes of variations on Diabelli’s minuet by 51 composers, including the epic set of 33 by Beethoven, op.120.

At 561 of today’s Wiener Zeitung, the Lithographic Institute also repeats its advertisement for the portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven, after the chalk drawing by Johann Stephan Decker.