BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Tuesday, December 6, 1825

Beethoven, at home, starts a shopping list:

• Candles.
• Blotting sand.

He then goes to visit Nephew Karl at his rooms in the Alleegasse. Karl asks how things are going with the household. Uncle Ludwig suggests that they go to one of the bankers tomorrow. Karl says tomorrow isn’t good, because they are too overwhelmed on postal days. He suggests they go on Friday, December 9, instead.

Karl lets his uncle know that he has the score of the Missa Solemnis, finally retrieved from Vice-Director of the Polytechnic Institute, Franz Michael Reisser. Uncle Ludwig takes the precious score with him so that it can be used for the contemplated Akademie benefit concerts.

Conversation Book 99, 7r.