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[Sketchbook for the years 1815-1816].
Composer
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
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Uniform title
Works.
Selections (Sketches)
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Format
Musical score, Manuscript
Language
No linguistic content
German
Published/Created
[1815-1816?]
Description
1 score (56 unnumbered leaves) : paper ; 24 x 31 cm, 4to
Availability
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Call Number
Status
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Notes
Special Collections - William H. Scheide Library
30.14
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Subject(s)
Beethoven, Ludwig van 1770-1827
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Manuscripts
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Musical sketches
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Music
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Manuscripts
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Manuscripts, German
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Bookseller
Rosenthal, Albi, 1914-2004
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Former owner
Floersheim, Georg, 1928-
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Floerscheim, Maria
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Koch, Louis, 1862-1930
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Miller zu Aichholz, Eugen von
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Artaria, August, 1807-1893
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Related name
Princeton University Library. Manuscript. Scheide 130
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Musical sketches
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Manuscripts
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19th century
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Paper
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Medium/Support
manuscript
Summary note
Autograph manuscript sketches for various completed and unfinished works, most likely written in Vienna from approximately March 1815 to May 1816.
Notes
Music treasures at Princeton
Origin: Written at Vienna, throughout the year 1815.
The original sketchbook probably consisted of a single gathering of 80 leaves (40 bifolia from 20 sheets). Leaf 17 (pp. 33-34), not counted by A. Artaria, is a fragment, with three-fourths of the original torn away (resulting in the frequent citation of 55 unnumbered leaves for the sketchbook). The manuscript also contains stubs for 17 leaves excised from the manuscript between the current leaf 16 (pp. 32-33) and the fragmentary leaf 17. Five additional leaves were also removed from the manuscript at an earlier time (two bifolia adjacent to the present first and last pages, and three leaves between the current leaves 46-47 (pp. 92-93). Johnson, pp. 245-46, has identified 8 of these leaves in the holdings of other libraries.
This sketchbook identifiable as Notirungsbuch C in Artaria's first classification, between 1827 and 1835, and as Skizzenbuch B in the firm's second classification, between 1865 and 1871 (as reflected by the cover title); cf. Johnson, pp. 20-23, 241-42.
Binding note
In modern blue cloth case.
Language note
Text in German.
Script
Staff notation.
Contents
Chief contents include sketches for Leonore Prohaska, WoO 96
Piano concerto in D major, Hess 15 / Unv 6
Das Geheimnis, WoO 145
Cello sonata in D major, op. 102, no. 2
Folksong arrangements “Robin Adair,” WoO 157, no. 7 / neue Ordnung: WoO 154, no. 63 and “O thou art the lad of my heart, Willy,” op. 108, no. 11
An opera on themes from antiquity
Canons “Das Schweigen” and “Das Reden,” WoO 168
Piano sonata in A major, op. 101
Sehnsucht, WoO 146
Piano trio in F minor, Unv 10
An die ferne Geliebte op. 98
Variations for piano trio, op. 121a (“Kakadu”)
Der Mann von Wort, op. 99
March for military band, WoO 24.
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Provenance
Obtained through Albi Rosenthal in May, 1965; from the Louis Koch Collection.
Lockwood, Lewis. “The Beethoven Sketchbook in the Scheide Library. The Princeton University Chronicle, v. 37, no. 2 (Winter 1976), pp. 139-53.
References
Schmidt, H. "Verzeichnis der Skizzen Beethovens," Beethoven-Jahrbuch, 1965/68, 364, p. 111-12
Albrecht, O. "Beethoven autographs in the United States." In Beträge zur Beethoven-Bibliographie (1975), Census 230B, pp. 5-6
Scheide, W. H. “To a Near Centennial of Shared Bibliophily.” In Festschrift Albi Rosenthal (1984), 261-62
Johnson, D., A. Tyson, and R. Winter, Beethoven sketchbooks (1985), pp. 241-46
For William H. Scheide: fifty years of collecting (2004), c| no. 409 (p. 90)
Bellofatto, L, and A. Orlandi, “ Beethoven and the Art of Horology: Addenda et Corrigenda.” In Bonner Beethoven-Studien, v. 11 (2014), c| pp. 170-71
RISM (Répertoire international des sources musicales), 1001010221
Cite as
Scheide Library, Princeton University. MA 130.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
Place name(s)
Austria Vienna.
Other title(s)
Skizzenbuch B : 55 Blätter
Scheide sketchbook
OCLC
1340384387
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