Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for March 03, 2023

Out of curiosity, what the mark the German currency at the time of Beethoven or was it something else? For sure it certainly wasn’t dollars and cents.

I read this strip many years ago in one of the Peanuts paperbacks.

But Beethoven rolled over.

You tell him Schroeder!

_When he dies and on that day

The sky’s as high the price they pay

While he lives the price they give is small_

(“The Painter,” Paul Anka)

Schroeder wants Beethoven to have more cents.

You tell’em, Schroeder!

I could not find the source of the story but I doubt that anything called “dollars” was involved. Examples:

“Beethoven settled for 100 florins for his First Symphony” https://scroll.in/magazine/981180/on-his-250th-birth-anniversary-remembering-beethoven-the-astute-businessman

“Prince Nikolai Galitzin commissioned the first three quartets (12, 13 and 15) and offered to pay Beethoven “what you think proper” for them. Beethoven replied on 25 January 1823 with his price of 50 ducats for each opus." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_string_quartets_(Beethoven)

“the mass was sold in 1824 for 1,000 florins Convention coins to the Schott publishing house in Mainz together with the Ninth Symphony that alone brought 600 florins.” https://scroll.in/magazine/981180/on-his-250th-birth-anniversary-remembering-beethoven-the-astute-businessman

Roll over Beethoven. Take the fifty.

Just like when William Goldman first heard from his Florinese father S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure.

Why Mt Pleasant is out of comic?? I know about Dilbert so sad