BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Thursday, August 10, 1826 (approximately)

After working on the quartet op.135 and finishing the proofreading on the latest version of the op.130 quartet, Beethoven does some financial computations. Unpaid assistant Karl Holz picks up the score of op.130 and delivers it to publisher Mathias Artaria. Later in the day, Holz comes back to see Beethoven, …