BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Wednesday, December 19, 1821

The Steiner music firm advertises Beethoven’s new piano sonata #30, op.109 in today’s Wiener Zeitung. For a major new work by Beethoven, the work seems to be poorly advertised, at least in comparison with the constant near-daily stream of ads extolling extracts from Der Freischütz and the operas of Rossini. But there will be a similar advertisement for the sonata repeated tomorrow from Cappi & Diabelli.