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Ludwig van Beethoven, Brief an Nikolaus Simrock in Bonn, Wien, 4. Oktober 1804, Autograph

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Beethoven asks his publisher Nikolaus Simrock in Bonn when the Violin Sonata op. 47, which he had sent the publisher in December 1803, will finally be printed (it actually only appeared in 1805). The letter is written in a very ironic tone and is full of puns.

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