Add MS 47851

MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. IX (ff. ii+120). Concerto, op. 61, for violin or piano by Ludwig van Beethoven, in score; bef. Aug. 1808. Copy, with autograph annotations by the composer relating to expression marks, accidentals, etc., in pencil and red crayon. No title-page. One leaf, at least, containing the first four bars of music, is missing from the beginning of the manuscript. The present score is the chief source of the simultaneous publication of both the violin and piano versions of the concerto by the Bureau des Arts et d'Industrie, Vienna, August 1808, to which the page castings in red pencil (not in Beethoven's hand)

refer. See A. Tyson, 'The Text of Beethoven's op. 61', Music and Letters, xliii, April 1962, pp. 104- 114; The Authentic English Editions of Beethoven, 1963, pp. 55-58; 'The Textual Problems of Beethoven's Violin Concerto', The Musical Quarterly, Iiii, Oct. 1967, pp. 482-502; Eulenburg score, no. 701, revised edition, 1968.

The manuscript was presented by Beethoven to Charles Neate, the English pianist, in February 1816 (Tyson, 1963, p. 56). Paper. 235 mm. × 310 mm. Belonged to Charles Neate; acquired at the sale of his effects (Sotheby's sale-cat., 7-8 Dec. 1911, lot 259) by Bertram Dobell; subsequently purchased from James Tregaskis, in April 1914, by E. H. W. Meyerstein (his note on f. ii, bookplate f. i). On f. 120b, 19th cent. annotation, 'Pössinger Pressant'.

Ludwig van Beethoven, composer: Violin or piano concerto, op. 61.: 1808.: Copy with autogr. annotations.

includes:

• f. i Edward Harry William Meyerstein, author: Bookplate: 20th cent.
• f. i Bookplates and Book-stamps: Meyerstein (Edward Harry William): 20th cent.