BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Wednesday, September 1, 1824

Beethoven likely returned to Baden from Vienna last night, and works on the quartet op.127 and walks and takes the baths, but does not have any conversations in the latest conversation book.

The Wiener musikalische Zeitung for today (Nr.70) at 280 slightly expands upon the advertisement a few days ago in the Wiener Zeitung for the Lithographic Institute’s newly-published set of six variations with coda for violin with piano accompaniment, on a theme from Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, as composed by Joseph Böhm, Franz Clement, Georg Hellmesberger Sr., Léon de Saint-Lubin, Joseph Mayseder, and Ignaz Schuppanzigh. “The public interest that comes from such a large number of composers who composed variations for the fortepiano [a reference to Diabelli’s two books of variations, the first of which was comprised of Beethoven’s 33 variations op.120] suggests that such an approach is effective, since the most famous violinists of the day are the authors of these variations.” This notice is repeated verbatim in the September 4 edition of the WMZ (Nr.71) at 284, and again in the September 15 edition (Nr.74) at 295, September 18 (Nr.75) at 300, September 25 (Nr.77) at 308, October 13 (Nr.82) at 238, October 20 (nr.84) at 336, October 23 (Nr.85) at 340, October 27 (Nr.86) at 344.