30th. The woman from Unter-Döbling came.
The four bad days, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th August. Dined at Lerchenfeld.
28th. The woman's month expires.
22nd October. The girl left.
12th December. The kitchen-maid came.
18th. Given warning to the kitchen-maid.
27th. The new housemaid came."
But enough of this lamentable spectacle of domestic confusion!—and enough too of matter for incessant vexation for the master of a house, who concerns or is obliged to concern himself about such details. But such was Beethoven's domestic state, with very little alteration, till his death. The impossibility of making himself understood by his servants was the principal cause of the incessant changes, by which, it is true, nothing whatever was gained.
Let us now turn from the prosaic to the poetical side of his life.