From the archive, 4 August 1924: Beethoven's bargain with a Baden landlord

Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 4 August 1924BADEN (NEAR VIENNA), JULYJuly was probably just as unbearably hot in Vienna a hundred years ago as it is in our days. The second half of the spring regularly found Beethoven in search of rooms amid the wooded hills west and south of the city. Best of all he liked Mödling and Baden. Baden is fifteen miles distant, about a twenty minutes' journey by express train, about two hours by diligence in 1824. The Emperor Francis and his two ...

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