Today is Ignaz Schuppanzigh’s name day. Although invited to spend the day, Beethoven does not attend, in part because Nephew Karl said that he would be too busy and cannot get away. Unbeknownst to either Beethoven or Holz, Nephew Karl goes to Baden today, possibly to select a place to …
Unpaid assistant Karl Holz visits Beethoven today, succeeding in his second try. He tells Beethoven that he had come an hour earlier, but Beethoven was locked away in his music room. [Apparently the servants were out doing shopping or running other errands.] Although Holz had complained about the hot weather …
Nephew Karl visits Uncle Ludwig again today, and delivers the letter to Schott’s under today’s date. His uncle reviews it and signs it so Karl can put it into the mail. “I hasten to inform you of the proper receipt of your bill of exchange under cover of your letter …
Nephew Karl visits his uncle today. Probably in relation to the visit yesterday to see Haslinger with Holz, and the dispute over the title pages, Karl is somewhat dismissive of his uncle’s concerns. “You act as if you were an aspiring author, whose works one does not want to buy …
As promised yesterday, Nephew Karl and unpaid assistant Karl Holz visit Tobias Haslinger’s music shop with Uncle Ludwig’s demands. Holz comes to the Schwarzspanierhaus to report to Beethoven, while Karl returns to his rooms at Matthias Schlemmer’s. Holz tells Beethoven that Haslinger “was very submissive; he said that he would …
Unpaid assistant Karl Holz and Nephew Karl join Ludwig for mid-day dinner today, probably at a restaurant near Karl’s rooms. Beethoven is still interested in going to the baths at Ischl. Holz suggests they could go together, but there is no good view from there these days. Holz comments that …
Beethoven works on an errand list this morning after working on the next quartet, op.135 in F major: Later in the day, he goes to visit Nephew Karl at his rooms rented from Matthias and Rosalia Schlemmer. The housekeeper, Marie Stiegel, likely doing shopping, either accompanies Ludwig or meets him …
About today, unpaid assistant Karl Holz checks in regarding Beethoven’s supply of fish with Wilhelm Klingenbrunner, who is acting as go-between with fishmonger Therese Jonas. Holz reports to Beethoven that he told Klingenbrunner that the fish were very expensive. “He asserted that now these trout normally cost 3 florins each, …
Unpaid assistant Karl Holz visits Beethoven early in the morning and suggests the composer come with him to Döbling in the country for the day. “I have a friend there, who has a house there, the broker [Franz Edler von] Bogner. A wonderful family.” They can be there by 8 …
Nephew Karl and unpaid assistant Karl Holz are visiting Beethoven today. They return to Conversation Book 114, which will be used pretty much exclusively for the next few days. Holz has subscribed to a paper that has appeared abroad, relating to the impact of Catholic and Protestant religion on art. …
Unpaid assistant Karl Holz visits Beethoven today. He was supposed to deliver some money to someone; Holz inquired at the coffeehouse yesterday, but was told he is in Baden and will not come back until tomorrow, Saturday [July 22]. His business partner has sent for the money. But one day …
About today or yesterday, copyist Wenzel Rampl visits Beethoven. The composer had asked him to track down a copy of Handel’s oratorio Saul. Rampl reports that it cannot be had anywhere but from the court. Count Harrach is the Court Councilor of Music, and it was promised to Rampl by …
Beethoven’s publisher B. Schott’s Sons in Mainz writes several letters related to Beethoven today. Neither of these letters survives, but their existence and general contents are known from other letters. Schott’s sends Beethoven a bill of exchange for 40 ducats, representing the second half of the purchase price of the …
Unpaid assistant Karl Holz visits Beethoven about today. He says that he will pick up the latest proof of the quartet op.130 from Mathias Artaria today. He asks Beethoven for the parts to compare. Holz also delivers Beethoven’s restrung violins, saying that violin maker Bernhard Stoss did a fine job …
Violinist Ignaz Schuppanzigh visits Beethoven sometime in the first half of this week, but the date cannot be narrowed down much more than that. Since Schuppanzigh often did so on Mondays, we propose the visit may occur today. As usual, Schuppanzigh addresses Beethoven in the third person, which is ignored …
Nephew Karl visits his uncle as usual today. He reports to Ludwig that Mathias Mann, the house superintendent of the Schwarzpanierhaus has asked all the tenants to contribute toward the sum of 25 florins for the monthly spraying to keep down the dust. However, some of the tenants have gone …
Unpaid assistant Karl Holz stops by Beethoven’s apartment briefly today; he would like to pick up the oratorio text for the first part of Saul so he can make a copy. [Holz is concerned that Beethoven will lose it in his disorderly apartment.] Leopold Sonnleitner (1797-1873), who is one of …
Unpaid assistant Karl Holz visits Beethoven today. He says he will fetch Beethoven’s violins from Bernhard Stoss’s shop, where they are being restrung. Holz shows Beethoven the first part of Christoph Kuffner’s oratorio Saul for consideration by Beethoven for setting to music. “With this oratorio, Kuffner wants to leave the …
Beethoven writes a shopping and errand list: Housekeeper Marie Stiegel makes some household notes regarding expenses, including purchase of spices. Conversation Book 115, 19v, 1r.
Beethoven begins using Conversation Book 115 today, even though he has not yet completely filled Book 114. Conversation Book 115 is a book of 36 leaves, all of which contain writing. Beethoven writes “July, 1826” in ink on the first page of the book. Leaf 19 appears to be out …