• [Sketchbook for the years 1815-1816].

Uniform title:
  • Works. Selections (Sketches)
Alternative:
  • Skizzenbuch B : 55 Blätter
  • Scheide sketchbook
Composer:
  • Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
Text language:
  • Text in German.
Publisher:
  • [1815-1816?]
Format:
  • Musical score
  • Manuscript
Date:
  • 1815-1816
Extent:
  • 1 score (56 unnumbered leaves) : paper ; 24 x 31 cm, 4to
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
Language:
  • No linguistic content; Not applicable
Abstract:
  • Autograph manuscript sketches for various completed and unfinished works, most likely written in Vienna from approximately March 1815 to May 1816.
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.
Description:
  • 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.
Former owner:
  • Floersheim, Georg, 1928-
  • Floerscheim, Maria
  • Koch, Louis, 1862-1930
  • Miller zu Aichholz, Eugen von
  • Artaria, August, 1807-1893
Bookseller:
  • Rosenthal, Albi, 1914-2004
Call number:
  • 30.14
  • Electronic Resource
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Subject:
  • Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827—Manuscripts
  • Musical sketches
  • Music—Manuscripts
  • Manuscripts, German—New Jersey—Princeton
  • Manuscripts—19th century
  • Paper
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