• Esquisse pour la op. 106 P.F. Sonata etc. = [Sketches for the piano sonata op. 106].

Uniform title:
  • Sonatas, piano, no. 29, op. 106, B♭ major (Sketches)
Composer:
  • Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
Publisher:
  • [1818?]
Format:
  • Audio
Date:
  • 1818
Extent:
  • 1 score (6 unnumbered leaves) : paper ; 24 x 32 cm
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
Language:
  • No linguistic content; Not applicable
Abstract:
  • Holograph sketches written in ink and pencil most likely in Vienna during the second half of 1818.
Contents:
  • Contains sketches for the second and fourth movements of the op. 106 sonata and a copy by Beethoven of the B♭ major fugue from J.S. Bach's Wohltemperierte Klavier, T. 2.
Description:
  • Six unnumbered manuscript leaves ruled with 8, 20, 12, 10, and 20 staves, respectively.
  • French title written on leaf [1] recto in a later hand.
  • Composition date based on the Beethoven Werkverzeichnis, v. 1, pp. 661-62; v. 2, p. 809; and Johnson, Beethoven sketchbooks, p. 535. Incorrect date "early 1819" written in pencil on the upper left margin of leaf [1] recto.
  • Music treasures at Princeton
Binding note:
  • In red morocco case.
Former owner:
  • Scheide, John Hinsdale, 1875-1942
  • Scheide, William H. (William Hurd), 1914-2014
  • Stumpff, J. A. (Johann Andreas), 1769-1846
Bookseller:
  • Gottschalk, Paul, 1880-1970
Call number:
  • MICROFILM 2035
  • MICROFILM 2563
  • 30.15
  • Electronic Resource
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Subject:
  • Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827—Manuscripts
  • Music—Manuscripts
  • Manuscripts, German—New Jersey—Princeton
  • Musical sketches
  • Manuscripts—19th century
  • Paper
  • Sonatas
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