BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Thursday, October 23, 1823

In preparation for what he hopes will be a great success with his new opera Euryanthe, Carl Maria von Weber completes the piano transcription of the overture (which he just completed last Saturday) so it will be ready shortly after the grand premiere the day after tomorrow.

Max Maria von Weber, Carl Maria von Weber. Ein Lebensbild, (Leipzig 1864-66) II at 739.

The Vienna Lithographic Institute, which Beethoven had for a while considered as a source to print his subscription sales of the Missa Solemnis, today advertises in the Wiener Zeitung at 992 its musical newspaper Der neue Amphion [The New Amphion.] Already in its fifth month, thus far its contributing composers have included Beethoven’s former pupil Carl Czerny, Drechsler, Gläser, Conradin Kreutzer, Mayseder, Payer, Pixis, Franz Schubert and Ignaz von Seyfried, among others. The journal appears on the 15th and last day of each month by subscription; individual issues are not available. [Beethoven’s name is conspicuously missing from the list of the major composers active in Vienna during this time.]