WoO 221 – (Hess 276) “Herr Graf, ich komme zu fragen, wie Sie sich befinden”
Canon
WoO 221 (Hess 276) “Herr Graf, I come to ask how you are”. Canon for 3 voices, in C major, 24 bars. Fully realized, only the text has not been fully deciphered. Max Unger writes that the piece is intended for Nikolaus Zmeskall von Domanovecz and was composed around 1797. It is a very pleasant and graceful piece. The autograph is in the Bodmer collection, at the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, but it is not mentioned in the catalog because, according to a verbal communication from Unger, it is a later acquisition by Bodmer. [It was not assigned several “Mh” because it is a later acquisition of the Bodmer collection, but it is currently cataloged as SBH 632 and SV 167. Published by Hess in SBG, vol. V, 1962, p. 78. The entire text was completely solved by Rudolf Klein and published in Beethoven Sämtliche Kanons, Verlag Doblinger, Vienna, 1970, page 7]


