BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Monday, August 14, 1826

Unpaid assistant Karl Holz takes Beethoven’s receipt for the first installment payment, 40 ducats, for the quartet op.131 to Franck & Co., and collects the gold ducats. He reports to Beethoven, who wants the funds in a more convenient form, Viennese florins. Holz tells him he will have the gold …