Monday, February 3:
To the new house in the morning, to see how the newly arrived family, complete with canary and Bible, is getting along. R. finishes his letter to the King.
In the evening the copyists' group, enriched by a Macedonian, Herr Lalas, sent by Richter, who has now become director of the opera in Pest. R. goes through Haydn's D major Symphony with them, then he plays the Andante in G minor from another symphony, explaining its beauties, above all its concision: everything expresses something, no arabesques, the two themes circle around each other like sun and moon. Of Weber's Jubelouverture, R. says that it made him for the first time conscious of the brilliance of E major.
At the end of the evening a strange conversation with the Macedonian, who claims to descend from the ancient Greeks and prefers the German neo-Greek pronunciation to the Greek (Idipus instead of Oidipus).