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Ludwig van Beethoven, Brief an Johann Speer in Mödling, Wien, 26. April 1820, Autograph

Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Sammlung H. C. Bodmer, HCB BBr 140

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Beethoven asks his landlord in Mödling to prepare his lodgings as he will move to them in a few days time. Beethoven loved the countryside and always spent the summer outside of Vienna. In summer 1820 (at the beginning of May) he moved his whole household to Mödling, a suburb of Vienna, staying at Speer's house until the middle of October.

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