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Whereas working errands in the present day, Beethoven makes be aware of a poster promoting an house out there on the Augustiners.
That is adopted by some notes for the Finale of the Ninth Symphony, indicating that work remains to be ongoing in some elements of this advanced composition, with a part of “Seid umschlungen.” Dialog E book 57, 29v. These notes are written within the bass clef, and seem to have “Freudig” written beneath them.
Karl and Ludwig do some monetary computations. The following housekeeper applicant reveals up for an interview. Karl describes her as fats, sluggish, and if he’s not mistaken, pregnant. She is turned away since they have been on the lookout for widows.
Karl mentions there was just lately an commercial within the Wiener Zeitung for a housekeeper, for 200 florins per 12 months. However the Beethovens pay way more that that [more like 300 florins.] Karl asks what his uncle would love for mid-day dinner.
Apparently studying a newspaper commercial, Karl mentions there’s a new wine seller. His least costly wine is 28 kreutzers, and the perfect 1 florin W.W. That appears comparatively low cost, so Karl thinks they could as nicely strive it. If it isn’t even adequate for desk wine, it could nonetheless be adequate for the servants.
At dinner or simply after, Karl continues his report on the live shows yesterday. After the Live performance spirituel within the afternoon, he went to a different live performance within the small corridor on the Musikverein. [This program included works by Mayseder, Rossini, Czerny, Schubert and Pechatschek.] Brother Johann needs to accumulate style. Ludwig asks how that’s going, and Karl laughs that Johann “all the time cries Bravo!” On the Schuppanzigh live performance [February 29], he was so loudly appreciative through the music that he needed to be shushed. Ludwig observes that a minimum of this retains Johann busy. Karl says Johann himself says he has “nothing to do all day lengthy.”
Karl asks whether or not Uncle Ludwig remembers assembly the lady who performed violin and clarinet, whose husband was an oboist, he thinks, who had toured Russia. Nicely, she was on the Live performance spirituel, however very plainly clothed in the identical overcoat he had seen her in earlier than. Karl thinks her identify is Pfeiffer. [Karl is close. She is Caroline Schleicher (1794-1873); her oboist husband was Ernest Krähmer (1795-1837). They will be giving a concert in this same hall on Sunday, March 7. Ernest probably was in the orchestra for this concert, since his wife seems to have been in the audience by herself.]
Karl observes that housekeeper Barbara Holzmann has cleaned up and is able to depart, in all probability round 4 p.m. [This is the last mention of Holzmann for a while, so her current stint with the Beethovens appears to end again sometime between March 5 and March 8, when a housekeeper is referenced but not identified as the “old woman,” as is typical when Holzmann is meant.]
Beethoven makes a purchasing listing:
6 handkerchiefs.
1 pair of foot heaters.
Later within the day, after working errands together with visiting a shoemaker, Karl and Uncle Ludwig learn the newspapers at a espresso home. Karl is considering seeing the menagerie marketed within the Wiener Zeitung, with lions, tigers and extra. He asks his uncle whether or not he has already seen a crocodile. [Karl and Ludwig do visit the wild animals, but not until Friday, May 14, 1824.]
Karl likes the mustard right here higher than the French ones; they’re costly and there may be nothing to them. The shoemaker’s invoice for a pair of higher leathers, remaking a pair of trainers, and including a pair of heels, comes to fifteen florins all advised. Karl thinks he does good work. Schindler had advised the shoemaker to make the boots fairly massive, however the shoemaker doesn’t know why.
Ludwig makes some notes of commercials within the newspaper, together with silver writing pens for vacationers, in addition to writing a second time about C. Güntersberg’s 2 quantity set Der fertige Orgelspieler [The Finished Organist], and 7 Festive Chorales for organ with brass by Fleck. [Beethoven seems to still be thinking about writing some church music, or possibly an organ part for the Missa Solemnis.]
Karl continues that in terms of a conductor for the Akademie live performance, Ferdinand Piringer is unquestionably superb, however he’s not in Schuppanzigh’s class. In any occasion, it could be unfair to Schuppanzigh to neglect him, since he has taken essentially the most pains for Uncle Ludwig, and likewise spurred different folks on.
Dialog E book 57, 29v-34r.
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