BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Sunday, June 6, 1824

Today is Pentecost Sunday. Beethoven may be working on the quartet op.127 for Prince Nikolai Galitzin, but he is also working on getting his things together for the impending move to the country. He makes a list of things to buy and errands to run, likely today:

+Chickens. [This entry is crossed out, suggesting he either arranged for the chickens or changed his mind.]
+Flour.
+Bookbinder. [A few days earlier, Beethoven had made a note to bind a copy of the Missa Solemnis, and that also is likely what this refers to.]
+Carpenter.
+Roasting spit.
+Nails.
+Letter sheets.
+Money. Penzing landlord. [The landlord was tailor Johann Hörr. The rent for the summer was already paid on May 1st.]
+Seamstress.
+Small pot for Karl.
+Ethyl alcohol.
+Glasses.
+Coffee.
+Sugar.
+Boot-jack. Umbrella. Scissors. Bedroom slippers.
+Straw.
+Padlock.
+Kitchen table.
+French dictionary.
+Italian [dictionary].
+Ankle boots to the shoemaker. Coffee spoon. Coffee. Sugar for Karl.
+Hall-tree.
+Straw chair.
+Candle snuffers: 2.
+Candle lighter.
+Coffee mill.
+Leave a hand towel here [in Vienna].
+Fire-starting machine.

Conversation Book 71, 23v-25r.