BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Monday, July 10, 1826

Uncle Ludwig goes to visit Nephew Karl at his rooms with the Schlemmer family probably after his examination today is over. Housekeeper Marie Stiegel accompanies him. Frau Rosalia Schlemmer makes a recommendation to Ludwig of a bookbinder in the Wickenburggasse.

Beethoven makes a note that Karl needs summer pants.

Conversation Book 114, 11v.

The former S.A. Steiner & Co. music publishing firm officially becomes the Tobias Haslinger company effective today. About now, Haslinger moves from the small street Paternostergasse to Graben Nr.572. Beethoven will comment about that change in a letter tomorrow. An aquatint of the Haslinger shop in about 1835-1840 by Franz Weigl is attached. (Bonn Beethovenhaus, NE 81, Band IV, Nr.681, and our thanks to Birthe Kibsgaard for pointing it out.)

View of interior of a music shop; three clerks are behind the waist high counter; two women in elaborate hats are customers. The shelves along the left and right walls are full of books and there are busts on top of the shelves. A large chandelier hangs in the middle and a round clock is on the far wall above another bust and a large mirror.

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