BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Wednesday, November 10, 1824

Today’s Vienna Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (Nr.90) at 360 includes an announcement of a forthcoming musical Akademie benefit concert by G. Lewy, first hornist of the Imperial Opera Orchestra, to be held on Sunday, November 21 at 12:30 p.m. in the National Assembly Hall. The opening piece on the program is to be Beethoven’s Overture to the opera Fidelio. Tickets are 4 florins W.W. and can be had at Steiner & Co., and at the box office on the day of the concert.