BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Sunday, July 11, 1824

Having found a place in Baden for the next few months, Beethoven has returned to his Vienna apartment and begins a list of things to buy and errands to run:

Conversation Book 73, 10v (detail), Berlin Staatsbibliothek.

+Exchange pencil.
2 stitched vests.
Mend the blue vest.
+Gray summer vest.
+A stitched bed quilt or the knit one – ask where to get them.
+Cloth for underpants.
[Pay] the shoemaker 12 fl.
[Pay] the tailor 15 ditto.
2 Stamped sheets 10 [official stamped paper for public documents]
37 fl.
+Take along the Singing Method from Paris.
+Also look again at [a brief musical passage].
+Odelga [Carl van Odelga, the ambassador from Tuscany and Nassau, who dealt with Beethoven regarding the Missa Solemnis subscription copies.]
+Do not exchange ducats.

Conversation Book 73, 10r-10v.

Beethoven probably returns to his summer place in Penzing this afternoon or early tomorrow morning.