BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Saturday, July 15, 1826

Unpaid assistant Karl Holz stops by Beethoven’s apartment briefly today; he would like to pick up the oratorio text for the first part of Saul so he can make a copy. [Holz is concerned that Beethoven will lose it in his disorderly apartment.]

Leopold Sonnleitner (1797-1873), who is one of the conductors of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde concerts is the topic of conversation. Holz says that he is one of the circle at the Haslinger music shop now. His father, “the old man” Ignaz Sonnleitner (1770-1831) is a member of the Society board and a professor at the Polytechnic Institute where Nephew Karl is attending. Holz calls Ignaz “very amiable.”

Beethoven is interested in getting another firm to act as his representative for incoming mail, replacing the Steiner/Haslinger firm in that role. Holz says it would be best to talk to an art dealer about it; he knows several. The Tendler & Manstein publishing house might be a candidate.

Conversation Book 5r-5v.