BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Wednesday, October 19, 1825

Artaria & Co. advertises in today’s Wiener Zeitung (Nr.239) at 1007 that it has available the new publications of Beethoven works, namely, Bundeslied, by Göthe, in full score or piano arrangement, op.122; Opferlied by Matthisson, in full score or piano accompaniment, op.121; Ariette with piano or guitar accompaniment op.121 [sic; this is actually Der Kuss, op.128]; [Consecration of the House] Overture for 2 or 4 hand piano, op.124; and Bagatelles for Pianoforte, op.126.

The same advertisement from Artaria also includes two new publications of works by Beethoven’s former pupil, Carl Czerny: Two Grand Marches for Pianoforte Four Hands, op.94; and Variations on a German Song for Pianoforte, op.91. The German song varied in op.91 is “Es ritten drei Reiter zum Thore hinaus.”