N.B. This conversation book seemingly continues a conversation begun in Heft 23.

[Blatt 1r]

SCHINDLER [at Beethoven's apartment in suburban Windmühle; Ash Wednesday, February 12]: Today, I have no [duties in the] theater. // Until 8 o’clock. //

Possibly you hold back only as it concerns Steiner, because your opponents win significantly by it. // The 3 works. // Only the Overture. // In the statement. //

H[err] Bauer, private secretary of Prince Esterházy. [//] [Blatt 1v]

Your brother is sleeping. // Doubtless good. // You mean the Overture. //

I don't go into any art dealership without having something to do; and even then, I know to behave like an intelligent man; you will always satisfy yourself of that in the future. [//] [Blatt 2r]

Gallenberg said that he would be happy if you came to dinner at his place often. // He would have paid you from his own pocket today, purely out of respect. // He told me that you had both socialized together and played a great deal. // with Fortepiano … // Otherwise he could not hope that you would come to see him. // [Blatt 2v] You are risking absolutely nothing if you keep it for yourself. We shall already arrange more with it. //

You shouldn't drink right away yet. //

They took Herr Kanne apart about his newest creation in yesterday's Theaterzeitung. You should read it; it really is worth the trouble. [//] [Blatt 3r] I’ve known these gentlemen for quite a long time, but don't know their names. [//]

BEETHOVEN [at his apartment; probably the morning of Thursday, February 13]: Büel or Bühl, surgical physician. // Skillful. [//] Has lived entirely differently from me. [//] [Blatt 3v] But belongs more among the inferior ones. //

[By mid-to-late morning of Thursday, February 23, Beethoven may have walked from his apartment in the Windmühle to Blöchlinger's Institute in the Josephstadt (about a 30-minute walk north) to visit nephew Karl on visitation day. If they met, it was brief, with Karl's seeming promise to visit Beethoven later. On his way into the walled City, Beethoven may have stopped at Anton Schindler's apartment, Josephigasse No. 15, to invite him for refreshments.]