Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- General Introduction to the English Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Reader's Guide
- Directionality in Vienna (True and Perceived)
- Heft 1 (ca. February 26, 1818 – after March 2, 1818)
- Heft 2 (March 17, 1819 – after May 15/16, 1819)
- Heft 3 (November 20, 1819 – ca. December 6, 1819)
- Heft 4 (December 7, 1819 – December 12, 1819)
- Heft 5 (December 13, 1819 – December 30, 1819)
- Heft 6 (ca. January 7, 1820 – January 26, 1820)
- Heft 7 (ca. January 27, 1820 – February 22, 1820)
- Heft 8 (ca. February 22, 1820 – ca. March 11, 1820)
- Appendix: Descriptions of the Conversation Books in Volume 1
- Bibliography
- Index of Writers of Conversational Entries
- Index of Beethoven's Compositions
- General Index
Heft 8 - (ca. February 22, 1820 – ca. March 11, 1820)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2019
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- General Introduction to the English Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Reader's Guide
- Directionality in Vienna (True and Perceived)
- Heft 1 (ca. February 26, 1818 – after March 2, 1818)
- Heft 2 (March 17, 1819 – after May 15/16, 1819)
- Heft 3 (November 20, 1819 – ca. December 6, 1819)
- Heft 4 (December 7, 1819 – December 12, 1819)
- Heft 5 (December 13, 1819 – December 30, 1819)
- Heft 6 (ca. January 7, 1820 – January 26, 1820)
- Heft 7 (ca. January 27, 1820 – February 22, 1820)
- Heft 8 (ca. February 22, 1820 – ca. March 11, 1820)
- Appendix: Descriptions of the Conversation Books in Volume 1
- Bibliography
- Index of Writers of Conversational Entries
- Index of Beethoven's Compositions
- General Index
Summary
[Inside front cover]
BERNARD [probably Tuesday, February 22]: Thursday is set up. [//] Your Majesty. //
[No entries for Wednesday, February 23.]
[Blatt 1r]
PETERS [presumably at the Rother Igel; after visiting Blöchlinger's Institute on Thursday, February 24]: Karl has made great progress in Greek. [//] The whole Institute was active; I found the greatest orderliness and quiet. [//] Karl's teacher in Latin and Greek appears to be very accomplished. [//] He [Karl] is studying Greek diligently and might be able to read Homer in 3 months. [//] In Mathematics they have 3 classes per week; they are now on equations. [//] I am thoroughly satisfied with the Institute. // It is an endorsement for the Institute that Karl is learning far more than is required in the school. // He must also take public examinations in Salzburg. [//] [Blatt 1v] He is learning far more at the Institute than in the school. [//]
Assuming that public instruction in Salzburg is excellent, it could probably be recommended; but that cannot be concealed. [//]
I was at the Kameel.[//]
You are leaving? [//] The worst time is past. [//]
Is he [Stieler] far along with your portrait? //
Prince Joseph Schwarzenberg still has to speak with the Emperor first. // If we don't leave in a week, we will miss Holy Week in Rome and the Miserere. [//] 8 months [on the road]. [//] [Blatt 2r] Upper [Northern] Italy, Florence, Rome, Naples, Sicily, Genoa, Turin, Switzerland. // If His Majesty says that he would prefer him [young Prince Ferdinand Lobkowitz] to go to the estates in Bohemia, then the good times are over; in order thoroughly to learn the [family's] business affairs. [//] He will reach his majority in a year. [//]
BEETHOVEN [noting prices]:
At the Rother Igel [Red Hedgehog], Tuchlauben 598:
Erlauer 2 fl. 24 [kr.]
Nesmuller 1 fl. 30
Schomlauer 1 12
Wazersdorfer 48
[Blatt 2v]
PETERS [continuing, presumably at the Rother Igel]: At Seelig's [Zur Stadt Triest] one costs 30 kr., here [it is] 15 kr.
Karl pleased me extraordinarily today [Thursday, February 24]; a truly superb nature. // You must have struggled to make things beneficial for Karl; such love must be explained to him; that must bind him to you forever.
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- Information
- Beethoven's Conversation BooksVolume 1: Nos. 1 to 8 (February 1818 to March 1820), pp. 277 - 328Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2018