Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- General Introduction to the English Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Reader’s Guide
- Directionality in Vienna (True and Perceived)
- Heft 9. (March 11, 1820 – March 19, 1820)
- Heft 10. (March 20, 1820 – ca. April 1, 1820)
- Heft 11. (April 1, 1820 – April 14, 1820)
- Heft 12. (April 18, 1820 – April 29, 1820)
- Heft 13. (May 1 or 2, 1820 – May 10, 1820)
- Heft 14. (ca. June 2, 1820 – ca. July 4, 1820)
- Heft 15. (ca. July 7/8, 1820 – August 19, 1820)
- Heft 16. (ca. August 25, 1820 – mid-September, 1820)
- Appendix: Descriptions of the Conversation Books in Volume 2
- Bibliography
- Index of Writers of Conversational Entries
- Index of Beethoven’s Compositions
- General Index
Heft 15. (ca. July 7/8, 1820 – August 19, 1820)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 October 2020
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- General Introduction to the English Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Reader’s Guide
- Directionality in Vienna (True and Perceived)
- Heft 9. (March 11, 1820 – March 19, 1820)
- Heft 10. (March 20, 1820 – ca. April 1, 1820)
- Heft 11. (April 1, 1820 – April 14, 1820)
- Heft 12. (April 18, 1820 – April 29, 1820)
- Heft 13. (May 1 or 2, 1820 – May 10, 1820)
- Heft 14. (ca. June 2, 1820 – ca. July 4, 1820)
- Heft 15. (ca. July 7/8, 1820 – August 19, 1820)
- Heft 16. (ca. August 25, 1820 – mid-September, 1820)
- Appendix: Descriptions of the Conversation Books in Volume 2
- Bibliography
- Index of Writers of Conversational Entries
- Index of Beethoven’s Compositions
- General Index
Summary
[Inside Front Cover]
BEETHOVEN [presumably in his apartment in Mödling]: July, 1820. [//]
BEETHOVEN [presumably at a coffee house, possibly the coach stop in Mödling, reading the Wiener Zeitung of July 6; either Friday, July 7, or Saturday, July 8]:
At Volke’s, [in the] Obere Backerstrasse No. 810; Val. Chr. Fr: Rost, etc., Griechisch-Deutsches Schulwörterbuch, mit durchgängiger Bezeichnung der Quantität [Blatt 1r] zweifelhafter Silben; size 8vo; Gotha, 1820; the subscription price for the whole set is 7 fl. 30 kr. W.W.; the first half is already available.
Mödling is still not rural enough. So many walls—more a small city, therefore also such terrible [Blatt 1v] human rabble.
DIETRICH [in Mödling, possibly encountering Beethoven by accident; probably Friday, July 7, or Saturday, July 8]: By the next art exhibition, I shall sculpt your portrait again, but this time completely life-size. [//] Your head looks particularly good from the front, and it was so appropriate because on one side [was] the Haydn, the other side the Mozart. [//] [Blatt 2r]
The portraits by [English painter Sir Thomas] Lawrence are the best that I have seen by living artists. [//] Fault can be found in everything, if one wants; this way, nothing is brought to perfection. [//] Wachtl took extraordinary joy in your portrait. [//] Wieden, Ankergasse <No. 277;> at the Green Anker. [//] [Blatt 2v]
I was at the building superintendent’s, and he was so stingy that he wanted to pay 10 or 12 fl. for your bust, and that is impossible, since I would have to work on it a week. [//] If the countess were healthy, she would have the bust made in marble without further ado. [//]
An artist named Kisling will now make a bust of our emperor that will be 18 feet high. [//] [Blatt 3r] It's a government like the one in Abdera. [//]
[Sculptor Joseph] Böhm must do everything possible to go to Italy. [//]
Don't take my awkwardness badly. [//] I am very happy to have found you healthy. [//]
Later I shall look at the Bruhl a little. [//]
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- Beethoven's Conversation BooksVolume 2: Nos. 9 to 16 (March 1820 to September 1820), pp. 267 - 302Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2019