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 14. (ca. June 2, 1820 – ca. July 4, 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, making an errand list for a trip back to Vienna; ca. June 2]: June, 1820. [//]
[Friedrich] Starke. [//]
OLIVA [presumably in Vienna, while Beethoven was on a shopping trip there; ca. Saturday, June 3]: 1 kr. The larger cost a Groschen for a pair.
[Blatt 1r]
BEETHOVEN [in Mödling, making a shopping list with errands and general musings; on, or possibly across several days before, Wednesday, June 7]:
Straw [mats] on the tablecloth.
Device on which to lay knife and fork. Boots.
Shoes.
At Lind’s.
For the servants.
For yourself, 2 pairs of nankeen [Nanking] pants and a house vest.
—for Karl, too— Nightstool.
Portable writing desk.
[Blatt 1v]
Sugar, 1 pound.
Vests, 5 white.
Modezeitung [Wiener Zeitschrift für Kunst, Literatur, Theater und Mode].
Housekeeper.
[Blatt 2r]
At the woman fish-seller’s,
or to Wolf,
concerning the old servant.
Hat.
Shoemaker, who worked for me in Vienna, or take one on Stephansplatz. [Blatt 2v]
Or 2 white pairs of pants.
Bernard: deliver Blöchlinger's letters and the ones from here.
Bach: to ask concerning [Blatt 3r] the edition of my Collected Works.
Alter the garters.
[Blatt 3v]
2 mousetraps.
Pillowcases.
Concerning the letters from Brentano.
[Blatt 4r]
Talk with [lawyer] Bach. //
They have not attached the testimonial of Smetana, the lowlife fellows. [Blatt 4v]
In general, [write] a new report to the Court Chancellery.
Why didn't the Court of Appeals advance my right to the guardianship? [Blatt 5r]
Testimonial of Dr. Hasenöhrl, and of Smetana.
Coffee machine.
The man cannot concern himself.
Have the knife sharpened in the City.
[Blatt 5v]
How was it that the letters were sent open and still cost 6 kr.?
Can Frau [Johanna] Beethoven take back half of the pension?
[Blatt 6r]
UNKNOWN WOMAN [Mödling; no later than Wednesday, June 7]: This man cannot drive every day; he is a butcher. [//]
My husband is coming tomorrow; he will speak with him. Today he went to Edenburg to buy oxen. [//]
Until/by Friday [June 9]. [//]
My godmother has died. [//]
[Blatt 6v]
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- Information
- Beethoven's Conversation BooksVolume 2: Nos. 9 to 16 (March 1820 to September 1820), pp. 223 - 266Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2019