BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Saturday, June 28, 1823

Beethoven writes an undated letter to Anton Diabelli about now. He is not happy with the corrected edition of the piano sonata #32, op.111, and he urges Diabelli to play through it himself. The engraver is apparently not musical, and he should not use the speed that was necessary to get the corrected edition out as an excuse. He nevertheless thanks Diabelli for the six copies that he provided, and he will collect the other six he is due on Monday afternoon when he is in Vienna.

Brandenburg Letter 1683 Anderson Letter 1197. The original is held in Bucharest, at the Romanian Museum of Music.

S.A. Steiner & Co. repeats in today’s Wiener Zeitung at 598 their advertisement for Carl Czerny’s arrangement of Beethoven’s Violin Romance #2 op.50 for piano four hands, Czerny’s op.44, as wells as his Variations on an original Bohemian Theme for piano solo, op.46.