Ludwig van Beethoven, Billet an Ferdinand Ries, Heiligenstadt, Sommer 1802, Autograph
Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Sammlung H. C. Bodmer, HCB Br 189
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Zusammenfassung
Beethoven asks Ries to inform him whether Count Browne has actually already sent the Marches op. 45,1 and 2 presented to him to be engraved. This was not the case, as Ries was able to show Beethoven - according to a letter to Wegeler (see BGA). The rumour that the Count had allowed both marches to be printed was so widespread that even Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig had heard it and referred to it in a similar case (pirate copy of op. 29).