The Beethoven Sketchbooks
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The Beethoven Sketchbooks

History, Reconstruction, Inventory

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The Beethoven Sketchbooks

History, Reconstruction, Inventory

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A comprehensive description of Beethoven's sketchbooks - bound books of music paper in which Beethoven made sketches for his compositions from about 1798 - has been long felt by Beethoven scholars. Although almost all the sketchbooks have survived in one form or another, it became clear in the 1960s that they were in a state of disarray. A reconstruction of their original condition was essential to the proper study of their musical contents. The book comprises: * Introductory chapters which summarize the ways in which past scholars have treated the sketches, explain the bewildering nomenclature that surrounds them, and proceed to more detailed discussions of the principal collections through which they passed. There is a central portion consisting of detailed accounts of individual desk and pocket sketchbooks. Each account follows the same basic plan: provenance of the manuscript, problems of reconstruction, chronology, contents, and structural chart. Later chapters deal with the sketches in score for the late quartets and highlight some of the problems. Beethovian scholars and students, especially those interested in the compositional process.


A comprehensive description of Beethoven's sketchbooks - bound books of music paper in which Beethoven made sketches for his compositions from about 1798 - has been long felt by Beethoven scholars. Although almost all the sketchbooks have survived in one

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. CONTENTS 1
  5. LIST OF PLATES
  6. PREFACE
  7. ABBREVIATIONS
  8. INTRODUCTION
  9. Chapter 1
  10. Chapter II
  11. HOW TO READ THE STRUCTURAL CHARTS
  12. CHRONOLOGICAL CHART
  13. SURVEY OF THE INDIVIDUAL SKETCHBOOKS
  14. GRASNICK I
  15. GRASNICK 2
  16. AUTOGRAPH 19E, FOLIOS 12-31
  17. LANDSBERG 7
  18. SAUER
  19. KESSLER
  20. WIELHORSKY
  21. LANDSBERG 6
  22. MENDELSSOHN 15
  23. MASS IN C SKETCHBOOK
  24. SKETCHBOOK OF 1807-1808
  25. PASTORAL SYMPHONY SKETCHBOOK
  26. GRASNICK 3
  27. LANDSBERG 5
  28. Landsberg 11
  29. SKETCHBOOK OF 1810-1811
  30. PETTER
  31. LANDSBERG 9, PP. 17-68
  32. DESSAUER
  33. MENDELSSOHN 6
  34. SKETCHBOOK OF 1814-1815
  35. SCHEIDE
  36. AUTOGRAPH II, BUNDLE I
  37. WITTGENSTEIN
  38. ARTARIA 195
  39. ARTARIA 197
  40. ARTARIA 201
  41. ENGELMANN
  42. LANDSBERG 8, BUNDLE 1
  43. LANDSBERG 8, BUNDLE 2
  44. DE RODA
  45. KULLAK
  46. ADDITIONAL TECHNIQUES OF RECONSTRUCTION
  47. PRELIMINARY LIST OF UNSTITCHED SINGLE-SHEET POCKET GATHERINGS
  48. CHRONOLOGICAL CHART
  49. SURVEY OF THE INDIVIDUAL SKETCHBOOKS
  50. ARTARIA 205, BUNDLE 2
  51. MENDELSSOHN I
  52. PARIS MS 78 AND MS 103
  53. BOLDRINI
  54. VIENNA A 45
  55. VIENNA A 44
  56. BONN BH 110
  57. POCKET SKETCHBOOK OF SUMMER 1819
  58. POCKET SKETCHBOOK OF LATE SUMMER 1819
  59. BONN BH 107
  60. BONN BH 108
  61. BONN BH 109
  62. GRASNICK 5
  63. POCKET SKETCHBOOK OF LATE 1821
  64. PARIS MS 51
  65. POCKET SKETCHBOOK OF EARLY 1822
  66. ARTARIA 205, BUNDLE 6A
  67. ARTARIA 205, BUNDLE 5
  68. ROLLAND
  69. AUTOGRAPH 8, BUNDLE I
  70. AUTOGRAPH 8, BUNDLE 2
  71. ARTARIA 205, BUNDLE 4
  72. GRASNICK 4
  73. Moscow
  74. EGERTON 2795
  75. AUTOGRAPH 9, BUNDLE 5
  76. AUTOGRAPH 9, BUNDLE 2
  77. AUTOGRAPH 9, BUNDLE I
  78. AUTOGRAPH 9, BUNDLE IA
  79. BONN BSK 22 AND MH 96
  80. AUTOGRAPH 9, BUNDLE 3
  81. AUTOGRAPH 9, BUNDLE 4
  82. AUTOGRAPH 10, BUNDLE I
  83. ARTARIA 205, BUNDLE 3
  84. PARIS MS 62 AND MS 66
  85. AUTOGRAPH IO, BUNDLE 2
  86. ADDITIONAL TECHNIQUES OF RECONSTRUCTION
  87. SURVEY OF MANUSCRIPTS BY WORK
  88. STRING QUARTET IN Eb MAJOR, OPUS 127
  89. STRING QUARTET IN A MINOR, OPUS 132
  90. STRING QUARTET IN Bh MAJOR, OPUS 130 (with the Grosse Fuge, Opus 133, as Finale)
  91. STRING QUARTET IN CH MINOR, OPUS 131
  92. STRING QUARTET IN F MAJOR, OPUS I35
  93. NEW FINALE TO THE STRING QUARTET IN B, MAJOR, OPUS 130
  94. BEETHOVEN’S SKETCHES BEFORE GRASNICK I
  95. SKETCHES FOR THE STRING QUARTETS, OPUS 59 (1806)
  96. SKETCHES FOR THE FIFTH PIANO CONCERTO, OPUS 73 (1809)
  97. SOME SKETCHES FOR OPUS IIS, OPUS II7, AND OPUS 113 (1811)
  98. SKETCHES FOR THE PIANO SONATA, OPUS 106 (1817-1818)
  99. Appendix A
  100. INTRODUCTION
  101. ILLUSTRATIONS
  102. Appendix B
  103. INTRODUCTION
  104. TRANSCRIPTION
  105. GENERAL INDEX
  106. INDEX OF WORKS
  107. INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS