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Language German Name Beethoven, Ludwig, composer, 1770-1827 Digitised Content Yes (unavailable)

1. Add MS 14396

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Add MS 14396
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A collection of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Xaver Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn and Sigismond Neukomm.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-13v. Franz Xaver Mozart: "Ich bin der erste Buffo", op. 13. Aria, with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, horns, clarinets, drums, and strings, in score, composed in 1808 for a private performance of his father's "Der Schauspieldirektor." Autograph. It was written for the com...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Add MS 29801

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Two sketch-books of musical compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven, containing the first ideas and rough notes of many of his completed works. Autograph.
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ff. 1-37. 'Beethoven. Skizzenbuch. B': consisting almost exclusively of 'Skizzen zu den 'Ruinen von Athen,' with a few (ff. 11, 11b) 'zu 'König Stephan.' Both these works were produced at Pesth, 9 February, 1812. Three leaves have been lost. About 1811].{c.f. letter of Dr. F. Kaiser (18/6/1962; ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
c 1781-1811
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 29803

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Cadenza by Beethoven, Canzonetta by Rossini, and Nocturne by Johann Nepomuk Kafka
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ff. 1-2b. Cadenza [by Beethoven] to the rondo in Mozart's pianoforte concerto in D minor [No. 466 in Köchel's Catalogue]. Autograph. Followed by Breitkopf und Härtel's printed edition of the same. f. 5. 'Mi lagnerò tacendo della mia sorte': Canzonetta, apparently no. 10 of a series by Rossini,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German and Italian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. Add MS 29997

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Add MS 29997
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Sketches of musical compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven, including C sharp minor quartet, Op. 131, composed in 1826.
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Sketches of musical compositions in the hand of Beethoven. The volume may be divided into two portions, of which the former (ff. 2-5) contains what appear to be sketches of the C-sharp minor quartet, op. 131; and the latter, miscellaneous sketches, most of them apparently dating from the end of ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

1 volume (42 folios)

5. Add MS 31766

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Add MS 31766
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Ludwig van Beethoven: The Pastoral Symphony Sketchbook A musical sketchbook chiefly made up of notes for the 6th (Pastoral) Symphony (Op. 68), here called 'Sinfonia caracteristica oder Erinnerungen an das Landleben'. On f. 2 is the note 'Man überlässt es dem Zuhörer sich selbst die Situationen auszufinden'. Of other works, notes appear at intervals, namely: of the 3rd Sonata for Piano and Violoncello (Op. 69) beginning with the second subject of the first movement (at the 37th bar) (f. 31v)...
Scope & Content:
ff. 60. Sketch-book [by Beethoven], containing chiefly sketches for the Pastoral symphony. It is dated at the beginning 1808, and evidently belongs to the first half of that year. According to Gustav Nottebohm, who has given an account of the MS. in his Zweite Beethoveniana (pp. 252, 369, etc.),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1808
Extent:

Paper; ff. 60. Oblong folio

6. Egerton MS 2795

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Egerton MS 2795
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Portion of a sketch-book of compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven containing chiefly sketches of the quartets (op. 130-133). There are also several in 3/8 time.
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Sketches (chiefly the violin part) of the following quartets for 2 violins, viola, and violoncello, and a canon, by Beethoven. 1. In B flat (op. 130). First movement, ff. l-3b, 5, 5b, 8, etc.;— and possibly the Danza Tedesca. ff. 6-8, passim. 2. In C sharp minor (op. 131). 'Adagio.' f. 4;— an...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
c 1825
Extent:
1 volume (16 folios)

7. Zweig MS 8

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Zweig MS 8
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Music to ‘Egmont’ (text Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), op. 84: sketch for op. 84, no. 1, Clärchen’s song ‘Die Trommel gerühret’
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Autograph. Written in ink on the recto and in pencil on the verso of a single leaf. Sketched mostly on single staves, with the text written above or beneath. The leaf has a vertical fold, and the sketches in pencil occur on the right half only of the verso. Later marginal annotations comprise: i...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1809-1810]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

8. Zweig MS 9

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Zweig MS 9
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Music to ‘Die Ruinen von Athen’ (text A. von Kotzebue), op. 113: [no. 5], Off-stage Music for wind band
Scope & Content:
Autograph condensed score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Tempo direction ‘assai Allegro ma non troppo’ (f. 1r). Headed ‘No 6’ and ‘Harmonie auf dem Theater’ in upper margin of f. 1r. Passage of 2 bars struck through on f. 1r; 1 bar struck through on f. 2v, but with note underneath to...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
c 1811
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

9. Zweig MS 12

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Zweig MS 12
Title:
Letter from Ludwig van Beethoven to Dr. Johann Bihler
Scope & Content:
[Baden, Summer, 1813]. Written in ink, addressed ‘Hr. von Bihler’ on the verso. An irregularly trimmed leaf, with bottom right hand corner, which presumably carried Beethoven’s signature, cut away.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1813
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

10. Zweig MS 13

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Zweig MS 13
Title:
Letter from Ludwig van Beethoven to Dr. Johann Bihler
Scope & Content:
[Vienna, probably mid-April, 1817]. Written in pencil, addressed in ink on the verso ‘Hr. Dr. Von Bihler’.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
Apr 1817
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)