Archduke Franz Karl of Austria (1802-1878) today in the early evening marries Princess Sophie of Bavaria at the Augustiner Church in Vienna. [Sophie’s half-sister Caroline Augusta was also Franz Karl’s stepmother, having married his father in 1816.] The wedding ceremony is conducted by His Imperial Highness and Eminence Archduke Rudolph, …
Among the compositions offered for sale today by T.Mollo in the Wiener Zeitung (Nr.252) at 1064 are the first two parts of the “Morceaux choisis [Selected Pieces] de Beethoven, arrangé à grand Orchestre” by Ignaz von Seyfried, and published in Leipzig by H.A. Probst. According to KH2, these first two …
Today’s post is by Guest Editor Birthe Kibsgaard. There is a lot of festivity (concerts, receptions, processions in the city) in Vienna the next couple of weeks because of the upcoming wedding between Archduke Franz Karl of Austria and Princess Sophie of Bavaria. Beethoven probably misses most of it – …
Today’s Vienna musikalische Zeitung (Nr.87) includes at 346-347 a review by editor Friedrich August Kanne of the Six Variations with Coda on a Theme of Beethoven for violin and piano by the composers Joseph Mayseder, Franz Clement, Joseph Böhm, Ignaz Schuppanzigh, Hellmesberger and Léon de Saint-Lubin. The theme is identified …
Today’s Wiener Zeitung (Nr.247) includes at 1039 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) …
Today’s issue of the Wiener Theaterzeitung (Nr.128) at 511-12 contains an appreciation of the Josephstadt Theater, where Beethoven’s former unpaid assistant Anton Schindler serves as concertmaster. We present here a few excerpts of this laudatory article. “Something about the Josephstadt Theater in general. “How fortunate the insightful management of this …
In today’s Zeitung für die elegante Welt [Newspaper for the Elegant World], Nr.207 at 1662, published in Leipzig, there is a brief report about Beethoven’s friend, pianist and composer Ignaz Moscheles. “Mr. Moscheles, whose mastery a large audience had the opportunity to admire at his concert held last Monday, will, …
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) …
Today’s entry is by guest editor Birthe Kibsgaard. Finally, as announced in the Wiener Zeitung two days ago, the new Burgtor (Castle Gate) into the City is opened to the public today, as of noon, on the anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig. It had been ready for 4 weeks …
Today Beethoven gets angry with the housekeeper about the butter going rancid. Uncle Ludwig and Nephew Karl, perhaps because of the butter incident, have mid-day dinner at a restaurant in Baden. Karl points out smoked tongue is available, with potatoes. Karl says he has told the housekeeper over and over …
Ludwig and Nephew Karl are still in Baden. They apparently get quite a few pieces of mail with information that Karl passes on to his uncle. The new apartment in the Johannesgasse isn’t quite ready, since some masonry work needs to be done. The weather is warm so there won’t …
Beethoven appears to be in Baden, reading yesterday’s newspapers from Vienna in a coffee house. An amusingly titled cookbook catches his eye, and he makes note of it and the fact it’s available at Grund’s book shop on Stephansplatz. The book is Was kochen wir heute? Was Morgen? Vollständigtes Kochbuch …
Today’s entry is by guest editor Birthe Kibsgaard. Today’s Wiener Theater Zeitung includes another announcement about the upcoming Schuppanizigh Quartet concerts. “Schuppanzigh’s quartets have always been favored with an excellent reception and were in recent years recognized with distinction by friends and patrons of the art of music. Inspired by …
Conversation Book 77 begins being used probably today. This book is comprised of 23 leaves, with all pages containing writing. Like the previous book, Anton Schindler misdated it to summer or autumn of 1825. Thayer corrects this to note that the contents in part relate to the wedding celebration that …
Today’s Vienna Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (Nr.81) includes at 321 a flattering announcement that the Schuppanzigh Quartet’s new subscription series of six concerts will be every Sunday afternoon at 4:30, beginning October 17. Subscriptions are available at Steiner & Co. Art and Music for 10 florins W.W. In order to maintain …
Beethoven writes today from Baden to his former pupil, Carl Czerny. “My dear Czerny! Thank you endlessly for the love you have shown me. Unfortunately, my brother forgot to ask you for the 4-hand piano arrangement of the Overture [Consecration of the House, op.124.] With this in mind, I hope …
Beethoven writes to his friend Tobias Haslinger a followup to his panicked letter of last night. “Our Benjamin arrived here this morning, which is why I had 17 and half a cannon fired. Previous events without being his fault et sine mea culpa [and without being my fault] have made …
Johann Andreas Stumpff most likely goes back to Vienna today and bids farewell to Beethoven. His account of their parting: “Beethoven was the last to accompany me to the carriage that was now to separate me from him on this side of the grave! After a few silent minutes on …
Beethoven’s friend Tobias Haslinger and visitor from England Johann Andreas Stumpff (1769-1836) make the long (three to four hours) hike from Vienna to Baden bei Wien. Stumpff also bears a letter of introduction from piano maker Johann Andreas Streicher. The weather is foggy and cloudy early on, clearing up to …
Probably sometime about now, Beethoven writes an undated letter from Baden to his former pupil Carl Czerny. “At this moment I find out that you are in a situation that I really never suspected. If you would trust me and just show me how things can perhaps be better for …