BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Wednesday, August 30, 1826 (approximately)

Unpaid assistant Karl Holz visits Beethoven, probably today. Former unpaid assistant Anton Schindler came to see him about how to handle Nephew Karl. Schindler thinks Karl should stay here under his uncle’s watchful eye. Holz thinks otherwise, and that Beethoven can still consider sending him off to work in an …