BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Sunday, July 9, 1820 (approximately)

Conversation Book 15, leaf 3v

Beethoven reads the Saturday, July 8 Wiener Zeitung at a coffee house or restaurant in Mödling, and copies down an ad for a new book by F.C. Weidmann, Signpost on Excursions and Forays through Austria and Styria. Beethoven may have been considering this book for suggestions as to places to build his country house, possible future options for his country summers, or simply jaunts for recreation.