BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Wednesday, April 10, 1822

If Beethoven keeps his promise to Schlesinger from yesterday’s letter, the fair copy of the revised finale to piano sonata #32, op.111 goes out to him via mail coach today.

Glenn Gould plays the wonderful second movement Arietta of the sonata op.111 here:

The Vienna Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung today (Nr. 29, pp. 226-227) reports on a concert featuring Ignaz Moscheles at the Paris Royal Musical Academy. An unspecified Beethoven piece (most likely a concerto, since there is reference to an orchestra conducted by Launer) was on the program. “Moscheles played the pianoforte, and under such fingers no music can be boring. Beethoven is the most excellent romantic composer; like the originators of this school, he loves to wrap himself in clouds, so that the lightning may shine forth more dazzlingly and divinely.”