![BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van (1770-1827). Autograph document signed (in Gothic script, 'Ludwig van Beethoven m[anu] p[ropria]'), Vienna, 1 April 1819, a receipt for his half-yearly allowance of 600 gulden from the treasury of Prince Rudolf Kinsky, countersigned with a confirmation of his residency in Vienna by the priest Ferdinand Füss, numbered at head '72' and stamped ('2 Gulden W'), one page, folio (355 x 215mm), (some slight punctures from acidification of ink in deletions), annotated in another hand on verso 'Den Amstehenden Betrag erhoben pr. Marco Berra Jakob Fischer'.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/CKS/2005_CKS_07098_0004_000(111530).jpg?w=1)
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BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van (1770-1827). Autograph document signed (in Gothic script, 'Ludwig van Beethoven m[anu] p[ropria]'), Vienna, 1 April 1819, a receipt for his half-yearly allowance of 600 gulden from the treasury of Prince Rudolf Kinsky, countersigned with a confirmation of his residency in Vienna by the priest Ferdinand Füss, numbered at head '72' and stamped ('2 Gulden W'), one page, folio (355 x 215mm), (some slight punctures from acidification of ink in deletions), annotated in another hand on verso 'Den Amstehenden Betrag erhoben pr. Marco Berra Jakob Fischer'.
AN APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED RECEIPT. 'Über fl: 600 w. w. sage Sechshundert Gulden in Wiener Währung, welche ich Endesgefertigter, als laut dekret ddo 18 jenner 1815 mir Kommenden Zuschuss, halbjährig von Monath 1ten oktober 1818 bis Monath 1ten April 1819 von der Fürstlich Kynskyschen Kasse baar und richtig empfangen habe' [For fl.600 w.w. or six hundred gulden in Viennese currency, which I have in due order received as the allowance granted to me under the decree of 18 January 1815 for the half year from 1 October 1818 to 1 April 1819 from the treasury of Prince Kinsky].
Beethoven's allowance was resumed, as he notes here, by an agreement on 18 January 1815 whereby he was to be paid half-yearly in the name of Prince Rudolf Kinsky.
AN APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED RECEIPT. 'Über fl: 600 w. w. sage Sechshundert Gulden in Wiener Währung, welche ich Endesgefertigter, als laut dekret ddo 18 jenner 1815 mir Kommenden Zuschuss, halbjährig von Monath 1ten oktober 1818 bis Monath 1ten April 1819 von der Fürstlich Kynskyschen Kasse baar und richtig empfangen habe' [For fl.600 w.w. or six hundred gulden in Viennese currency, which I have in due order received as the allowance granted to me under the decree of 18 January 1815 for the half year from 1 October 1818 to 1 April 1819 from the treasury of Prince Kinsky].
Beethoven's allowance was resumed, as he notes here, by an agreement on 18 January 1815 whereby he was to be paid half-yearly in the name of Prince Rudolf Kinsky.
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