BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Thursday, September 2, 1824 (approximately)

Beethoven probably today writes an errand list while in Baden.

To Brother: fine postal paper.
+Key in Vienna.
+Barber’s razor.

After walking and working, he relaxes in a coffee house and reads yesterday’s Wiener Zeitung. He copies down the statutory price for a pound of beef, being 7 kreuzers C.M. He seems to practice his multiplication and division that Karl has been teaching him, for he nearby computes the cost of 2 pounds and of half a pound of beef. Wiener Zeitung (Nr.201) at 842.

In the Intelligenzblatt supplement to yesterday’s Wiener Zeitung, Beethoven notes a couple of possible apartments, one in the Grosse Schulerstrasse, and one in the Roter Turmstrasse.

Beethoven shops for sugar, and the shopkeeper writes in the different prices for 2 pounds of fine sugar, and 2 pounds of ordinary sugar.

Conversation Book 74, 7v-9r.