BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Tuesday, October 26, 1824

Today’s Wiener Zeitung (Nr.247) includes at 1039 a repeat of Anton Diabelli’s advertisement for the ongoing series of Carl Czerny’s Die Kunst des Fingersatzes (The Art of Fingering), which includes in volume 5 Beethoven’s Sonata pathètique op.13 and in volume 11 Czerny’s arrangement of the second movement (Andante con variazioni) of the Kreutzer Sonata for violin, op.47, for piano solo.

Shuann Chai here plays the Sonata pathètique on a fortepiano live:\