BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Wednesday, July 7, 1824

Nephew Karl is with his uncle in his apartment in Vienna. Karl cannot find the clock key.

Later, in a coffee house, Beethoven reads the newspapers and makes some reminder notes to himself:
+Ask Schindler, is he in the apartment? [Editor Theodore Albrecht suggests this refers to Schindler’s apartment at Josephsgasse 15.]
+The entire second floor [third floor American] at the Ferdinandsbrücke, Leopoldstadt, No.589, to move in at Michaelmas [September 29].
+To Bach; where in Bad [Beethoven’s attorney Johann Baptist Bach; “Bad” presumably means “Baden.” Attorney Bach may be there already; Beethoven will move there himself later in July.]
+Sugar.

Conversation Book 73, 1r-1v.

Weigl’s Art and Music Shop offers for sale in today’s Wiener Zeitung, Nr.153 at 642, the Grand Piano Quartet Nr.3 in E minor, op.129 by Beethoven’s former pupil, Ferdinand Ries.

That piano quartet is here performed by the Vienna Piano Quartet: