Will Your Electoral Grace deign to listen to the complaint that when Court Singer Schwachhofer was commanded in obedience to an order of His Excellency Baron von Belderbusch to alternate with Jacobina Salomon in the singing of the solos in the church music as is the custom, the said Schwachhofer in the presence of the entire chapel impertinently and literally answered me as follows: I will not accept your _ordre_ and you have no right to command me. Your Electoral Grace will doubtless recall various _disordre_ on the part of the court chapel indicating that all respect and _ordonance_ is withheld from me, each member behaving as he sees fit, which is very painful to my sensibilities. Wherefore my humble prayer reaches Your Electoral Highness that the public affront of the Schwachhofer be punished to my deserved _satisfaction_ and that a decree issue from Your Highness to the entire chapel that at the cost of Your Gracious displeasure or punishment according to the offence my _ordre_ shall not be evaded. Your Electoral Grace’s Humble and Most Obedient Servant Ludovicus van Beethoven. II. To Chapelmaster van Beethoven Concerning the Court Musicians. M. F. E. Receive the accompanying Command to the end that its contents be conveyed to all of our court musicians or be posted on the “toxal.” We remain, etc. Bonn, April 26, 1768. III. Command respecting the Court Musicians. Having learned with displeasure that several of our court musicians have tried to evade the _ordre_ issued by our Chapel Master or refused to receive them from him, and conduct themselves improperly amongst themselves, all of our court musicians are hereby earnestly commanded without contradiction to obey all the commands given by our Chapel Master in our name, and bear peaceful relations with each other, since we are determined to proceed with rigor against the guilty to the extent of dismissal in certain cases. Sig. Bonn, April 26, 1768. JOHANN VAN BEETHOVEN NEEDS MORE MONEY On November 17, 1769, Johann van Beethoven submits a petition in which he exhibits anew his genius for devising methods for varying the spelling of his own name. That he could no longer live on 100 th. salary is evident when it is remembered that he has now been married two years; but as there were several applicants for the salary which had fallen to the disposal of the Elector, it was divided among the four most needy. Beethoven’s memorial contains a fact or two in regard to his duties as Court Musician which are new: To His Electoral Grace of Cologne, etc., etc. The Humble Supplication and Prayer of Johann Bethof, Court Musician. Most Reverend Archbishop and Elector, Most Gracious Lord, Lord.