D-DGla, KK II Nr. 3020 (Minutes of the Privy State Council, 1788)
Bonn and Münster, 1788
Location: Duisburg, Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen (D-DGla), Abteilung Rheinland, Kurköln II Nr. 3020, I and II
During the reign of Elector Maximilian Franz, most petitions and decrees were decided upon in meetings of the so-called Geheime Staats-Conferenz. These bulky protocol books are seldom consulted by music historians, and were largely overlooked by Thayer for his Beethoven biography (and as a result they appear in no later scholarship that relies on him). Their value is especially critical when the corresponding petitions and decrees have not survived, as is very often the case with court musicians. In cases where they have survived, the records here can sometimes clarify points of chronology or details of the decision-making process. One important subtlety has to do with the chain of command. Most petitions were not handled by the elector directly, so when a first decision is marked "dependirt von höchster Gnad," which can be understood as "referred to the highest authority," it is a sign that the matter was considered unusually important.
An index, organized roughly alphabetically by last names of petitioners, appears in the second volume from fol. 762r.
Transcription
[155v]
[Bonn, den 3. Märzens 1788]
448 Ehefrau des hiesigen Hof-
=Fagotisten Joan Kücheler bittet
ihren Mann aus dem Kurf.
Diensten in Gnaden zu entlassen
[left side]
den 5ten Dto.
ist die Entlassung g[nä]d[i]gst ertheilt
dasder abschied dem Obrist-
-Hofmeister von Salm zugesandt,
die Hofkammer davon ver-
=ständigt, und der Supplicantem
bedeutet worden, sich ihres
Gesuchs halber, beÿm Obrist-
-Hofmeister zu melden./
[342v]
[Bonn, den 5. Mai 1788]
981 Organist Ludew. van Beethoven
bittet um einigen milden Zusatz./
[left side]
Resol.
Beruhet
[680r]
Perner and Welsch dispute about an engagement in Frankfurt (see KK II 471, fols. 34ff)
[719v]
[Ellingen den 18. Dez. 1788]
2241 Decretum für den Musicant
N. Demmer als VocalBassist
auf ein jähr lang, mit 200 fl.
jährlichen Gehalts
2242 Decretum für den Musicant
N. Spitzeter ./. simil.
Translation
In Progress