BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Friday, October 1, 1824

Brother Johann presumably departs at 5 a.m. as he planned yesterday, to visit Nussdorf to properly document his substantial annual payments for his estate.

Today, or perhaps early tomorrow morning, Nephew Karl works with Ludwig to plan the mid-day dinner for Johann Andreas Stumpff. The list of possibilities, with explanations by editor Theodore Albrecht:

Kerbelsuppe [a cream soup, to which chervil, a relative of parsley, is added]
March Knödel [dumplings with bone marrow; this entry is stricken out by Karl]
Meat with Sauerampfen [sorrel, a green leafy vegetable]
Weisse Rüben mit Schöpsen [White turnips with lambchops]
Carbonnade [a rich beef stew in beer]
Rabbit. [This may be the rabbit that Johann opined on September 29 would still be good two more days.]
Kerbelsuppe [again]
A 1 florin bottle [presumably of wine. This entry is written by Karl vertically on the page.]

Conversation Book 76, 9r.

Music dealer J. Bermann repeats his advertisement for Beethoven’s Trois Sonates [op.10], recently reprinted from the original plates but lacking the dedication, for 6 florins W.W. in today’s Wiener Zeitung (Nr.226) at 946.

The musical supplement to the October, 1824 issue of The Harmonicon, published in London, contains at 202 a “Ländler for the Piano-forte,” credited to Beethoven. This piece is not by Beethoven at all, but is rather the Hoffnungswalzer WoO Anhang 14/3. This piece had first appeared under Beethoven’s name in about 1820, published by the Schott’s firm in Mainz, under the title Favorite Ländler by L. van Beethoven. The actual composer of this popular and frequently-reprinted, though spurious, piece remains unknown. The Hoffnungswalzer is here played by Liliane Cristine (though still attributed to Beethoven):