BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Wednesday, October 20, 1824

Today’s Wiener Zeitung (Nr.242) includes at 1015 a repeat of Anton Diabelli’s advertisement for the ongoing series of Carl Czerny’s Die Kunst des Fingersatzes (The Art of Fingering), which includes in volume 5 Beethoven’s Sonata pathètique op.13 and in volume 11 Czerny’s arrangement of the second movement (Andante con variazioni) of the Kreutzer Sonata for violin, op.47, for piano solo. Thus far the series contains 18 volumes; there will eventually be 24 in the complete set.

Cyprien Katsaris here plays Czerny’s piano solo arrangement of the Kreutzer sonata: