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.