BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Thursday, June 30, 1825 (approximately)

The administrator of Schloss Gutenbrunn lets Beethoven know that he has found another kitchen maid. The one that they have can be allowed to leave as she wanted to do. Frau Holzmann is unfortunately also quite old. Ludwig would like to have the maid stay on as she had promised to do. The administrator reminds him that if she stayed unwillingly, he would not fare well, since she doesn’t have any desire to remain in the house.

Beethoven complains that he is not being treated well at the local baths. The administrator gives him something to show to the Mayor of Baden bei Wien, Martin Joseph Mayer (1765-1832); then the bathing servants will immediately treat him differently.

Beethoven observes that the baths are not all the same temperature. The administrator agrees that some are 1/2 degree [Reaumer] less warm.

Beethoven apparently does something that the administrator finds amusing; he says, “Pardon me, dear Herr v. Beethoven; your nature is infinitely lively.”

Conversation Book 90, 19r (bottom); 20v (bottom), 21v-22r. .

Sauer & Leidesdorf repeats its advertisement of its unauthorized arrangement of a movement from Beethoven’s Violin Sonata op.30/1 in today’s Wiener Zeitung (Nr.146) at 628, under the title Variations favorites pour le Pianoforte à 4 mains.

The seventeenth annual meeting of the Yorkshire Amateurs of Music is held in Leeds on the 29th and 30th of June, marked with several concerts in the Music Hall there. Today’s concert, which was almost as numerously attended as that of Wednesday, which had 550 people, included as part of the proceedings Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, op.84, which was “rendered highly effective.” The Harmonicon, August 1825 Nr.XXXII, at 133.