BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Monday July 29, 1822

Rossini and his troupe may be gone from Vienna, but Rossini fever continues. Weigl has a large advertisement in today’s Wiener Zeitung for vocal/piano scores to Elisabeth, Eduardo e Cristina, Torvaldo e Dorliska, La gazza ladra, The Italian Girl in Algiers, The Turk in Italy, Barber of Seville, Cenerentola, Othello, Tancred and Moses. Weigl also offers four-hand piano versions of the operas Cenerentola, Barber of Seville, and Italian Girl in Algiers.

Meanwhile, Artaria offers its own scores with piano of Zelmira, Corradino [Matilde] and Elisabetta. Artaria’s charge for the centerpiece of the Festival, Zelmira, is more than double the price of any of the other operas, indicating its continued popularity.

T. Mollo offers a few different versions of Addio ai Viennesi, Rossini’s Farewell to Vienna, under the names La Partenza and Der Abschied, for vocal solo with piano, guitar, piano solo, and four-hands piano. Variations on the theme, written by Hieronymus Payer, will appear shortly.

You may remember French flautist Louis Drouet had made a splash in Vienna earlier this spring with a series of three concerts (which included performances of some Beethoven orchestral works). Cappi & Diabelli offers several compositions for flute by Drouet, his Études pour la Flute, and Sul margine d’un rio (theme with variations) for flute with accompaniment by piano or guitar, op.123, as played by the composer in his Vienna concerts.