BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Tuesday, September 14, 1824

Ludwig and Nephew Karl get ready to go to Vienna today so they can continue apartment hunting for the fall.

Karl writes out a form of receipt for 50 ducats for one copy of the Missa Solemnis in manuscript.

Karl was out in the courtyard, and observed that it looks like it’s going to rain. The carriage driver agreed it looked like it would begin soon. Karl will take along two umbrellas, but they will be of little use in the coach.

They arrive, probably with the new maid, back in Vienna in the afternoon. Beethoven visits a coffee house and reads today’s newspapers. In the Intelligenzblatt are two items of interest, which he copies down, advertisements for an apartment with six rooms at Salzgriess 189, and a house in Döbling for sale for 7,000 florins C.M. It has several apartments and a splendid garden.

Conversation Book 75, 19r-20r.