BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Tuesday, August 22, 1826

Unpaid assistant Karl Holz delivers to Archduke Rudolph’s offices Beethoven’s receipt for the 6-month payment of his annuity. Holz advises Beethoven he could have made the receipt as two semiannual receipts for 300 florins C.M. because he can save a florin on the stamp tax that way. [The tax is …