Compositions and Publications of 1813
The ascertained compositions of this year are:
I. Triumphal March, C major, for Kuffner’s “Tarpeia.”
II. “Wellington’s Victory.”
III. Song: “Der Bardengeist” (“On November 3d, 1813”).
IV. Canon: “Kurz ist der Schmerz.” (First form.) “For Herrn Naue as a souvenir from L. v. Beethoven, Vienna, November 23, 1813.” Johann Friedrich Naue, successor to Türk as Musik-Direktor, etc., at Halle, born in 1790, appears to have been in Vienna on a visit this Autumn.
V. Irish airs quite, or nearly, completed.
Publications:
In Thomson’s preface to the First Volume of “A Select Collection of Original Irish Airs,” dated “Edinburgh, Anno 1814,” he remarks: “After the volume was printed and some copies of it had been circulated, an opportunity occurred of sending it to Beethoven, who corrected the few inaccuracies that had escaped the notice of the Editor and his friends; and he trusts it will be found without a single error.”
It is to be inferred from this, that the first volume was published, at the latest, this year; but the corrections were not sent to Thomson until September, 1814. The songs were originally printed in numbers. Thus of the first volume of the Scotch Songs, principally by Koželuch and Pleyel, the First, Third, and Fourth Sets, now before the writer, contain 25 songs each.