BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Friday, May 5, 1826

Today’s Wiener Zeitung (Nr.102) at 440 includes an advertisement from S.A. Steiner & Co. for the “Newest Quartet (in E-flat) for two violins, viola and violoncello, by Ludwig van Beethoven. 127th Work. 3 fl. 36 kr. Conv. Münze.” This edition was published by Schott’s in Mainz, though Steiner makes no mention of that fact.

The op.127 quartet is here performed by the Busch Quartet: