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Ludwig van Beethoven, Einzelblätter aus Konversationsheften

Beethoven-Haus Bonn, BH 53

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Summary
Alongside the usual entries by conversation partners there are numerous notes by Beethoven on these leaves. These are often copies and excerpts from newspapers (e.g. advertisements for lodgings "all those advertised in the Wiener Zeitung from 5 June") or sums, notes of conversations and aids to memory. There is also a correction for the second movement of the Ninth Symphony op. 125, which Beethoven had sent to Schott publishers in Mainz in letters BGA 2200 and BGA 2215 (both in September 1826).
Several different entries enable us to date it to 1826 and 1827. Beethoven's correction for op. 125 can be found in two letters from September 1826. One leaf contains the note "Dietrichstein ist Bibliothekar geworden / Er ist vom September an nicht mehr Hofmusikgraf und Theaterdirector ("Dietrichstein has become librarian / From September onwards he is no longer Hofmusikgraf and theatre director"). Dietrichstein changed jobs in 1826. On the last leaves there are conversations referring to the fact that Beethoven is bedridden and to his medical treatment, which were held in the last weeks of his life (e.g. an entry by Dr. Joseph Röhrig who was treating Beethoven, standing in for Dr. Malfatti).

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