BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Saturday, July 8, 1826

Beethoven’s publisher B. Schott’s Sons today writes to Beethoven. In the postscript of this now-lost letter, Schott’s advises that they intend to send two copies of the Ninth Symphony to the King of Prussia, to whom it is dedicated.

Brandenburg Letter 2166. The date and partial contents of this letter are inferred from Beethoven’s response of July 26, Brandenburg Letter 2172.

Today’s Wiener Zeitung (Nr.154) contains an advertisement from Cappi & Co. for a new work by Franz Schubert, Six Polonaises for piano four hands, op.61, in two volumes. This set is now catalogued as Schubert’s D.824. Each volume is sold for 2 florins W.W. This set of polonaises by Schubert is here performed by Yaara Tal and Andreas Groethuysen: