Dearest Count
of Music
On the best paper I
possess I am writing to ask you to be so kind as to play in the
septet [Opus 20] at Odescalchi's tomorrow. Schindlecker is not
here. So if you don't play, the whole musical performance will
have to be cancelled; and in that case I shall be most certainly
suspected of having omitted to do something.-Therefore I beg you,
dear C[ount] of M[usic], not to refuse to do me this favour. You
will certainly be treated with the greatest distinction. Prince
Odescalchi himself will write to you tomorrow morning about this
- The rehearsal is at eleven o'clock tomorrow morning. I am sending
you the score so that you may have a look at the solo part in
the last minuet, which, as you know is the most difficult - I
am expecting you -
Your
Bthvn