BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Thursday, January 12, 1826

At 6:30 p.m. today, there is a concert given by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde at the hall at the Sign of the Red Hedgehog. This concert opens with Beethoven’s string quintet in E-flat, op.4, performed by Messrs. Franz, Maucher, Schreiber, Philipp and Fuchs.

The Quintet is here played by the Ensemble Mendelssohn:

The Beethoven quintet is followed by the premiere of Franz Schubert’s song on words by Goethe, Rastlöse Liebe, D.138. Beethoven had made several attempts to set this poem, which are collectively catalogued as Hess 149, and can be heard here both as Beethoven’s continuity drafts, and as completions by Willem Holsbergen:

https://unheardbeethoven.org/search.php?Identifier=hess149

Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung May 10, 1826, 313-315. A copy of the handbill for the concert is included here courtesy of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde.