BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Saturday, July 16, 1825 (approximately)

About this morning, Beethoven is visited by a copyist named von Manetinsky. He understood that Beethoven needed a copyist, and he had been directed to Beethoven’s door. [The editors suggest this may be Johann Baptist von Manetinsky, a singer and actor at the Theater an der Wien, who was staying in Baden during the summer of 1825. In any event, nothing appears to come of this cold call, since von Manetinsky is not mentioned again.]