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 6 - (ca. January 7, 1820 – January 26, 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
[Blatt 1r]
PETERS [at a restaurant or coffee house (possibly Zur Stadt Triest) with Bernard; possibly Friday, January 7, 1820]: Bernard resents me that I have a wife and want to go home; I believe that he is jealous. //
BERNARD [continuing]: He concerns himself too little about his wife. She says that I am her vice-husband, and I always say that if Peters dies, I shall inherit her. [//] [Blatt 1v]
Today he [Schickh] spoke very sorrowfully with me, and wants to clear everything up with me tomorrow. I cannot escape, but I shall obtain my freedom, though. [//] [Blatt 2r] He has no position if I abandon him, so he doesn't know what to do. // <Who was ….> //
I want to copy out a song by Lessing for you that you ought to compose. [//]
BEETHOVEN [figuring the bill for refreshments, maybe in hopes of escape]: 1 [fl.] 30 [kr.]
[Blatt 2v]
BERNARD [copying the poem]:
Lob der Faulheit
[Praise of Laziness]
Faulheit! Endlich muss ich dir
Auch ein kleines Loblied bringen!
Ach, wie sauer wird es mir,
Dich nach Wurden zu besingen—
Doch ich will mein Bestes tun,
Nach der Arbeit ist gut ruh'n! [Blatt 3r]
Höchstes Gut!—wer—dich nur—hat—
Dessen ungestortes Leben—
Doch ich—gähn’—und werde—matt—
Drum wirst du es mir vergeben,
Dass ich dich nicht singen kann,
Du verhinderst mich ja dran!
[Blatt 3v]
BEETHOVEN [left alone after the above exchange, or at his apartment; possibly Friday, January 7]:
25 Scottish Songs, among them a duet and 4 with choruses. [//]
NB: Can't one also garnish her pension? And doesn't compensation for damages, as much as possible, have to be made to me, [Blatt 4r] in addition to the half of the [princes’] pension, which is now outstanding for more than a full year? NB: Since I have pension sheets in hand, can you, for instance, raise the money from the guardian? If she dies, he has nothing; and [if] I do not take care, [Blatt 4v] not only does he lose everything from me, [but] moral corruption also hangs over him. The simple question is whether the Magistrat is empowered to overrule that which the Landrecht has done? And whether I can't bring action against it?
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- Beethoven's Conversation BooksVolume 1: Nos. 1 to 8 (February 1818 to March 1820), pp. 175 - 224Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2018