Music Collection has collected Beethoven facsimile editions containing sketchbooks and autographs, which range from a few bar sketches to works of String Quartets or the finale of a symphony. In addition to the bibliography, online access to a Review of the facsimile edition is included, when available. Selected readings of Scholarly Studies on Beethoven sketches and facsimiles & Online Resource provide in-depth analysis of the works and further information respectively.
Ein Skizzenbuch zu den Diabelli-Variationen und zur Missa solemnis, SV 154.
[A sketch book of 33 Variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli, op120 and Missa solemnis]
Bonn: Beethovenhaus, 1968.
Call Number: MuR 780.262 B41 v5 I/33
2 Volumes
Volume 1: Transcription by Joseph Schmidt-Görg
Volume 2: Facsimile
Review by Robert Winter Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Spring, 1975), pp. 135-138.
An die ferne Geliebte.
[To the Distant Beloved] Song Cycle
Liederkreis von Alois Jeitteles Op. 98
Faksimile nach dem im besitz des Bonner Beethovenhauses
Befindlichen original
Munchen: G. Henle, 1970.
Call Number: MuR 784.3 B41 a5 score
Autograph miscellany from circa 1786 to 1799: British Museum Additional Manuscript 29801, ff. 39-162 (The Kafka sketchbook).
Edited by Joseph Kerman
London: British Museum, 1970.
Call Number: MuR 780.81 B41 K3
Volume 1: Facsimile
Volume 2: Transcription
Sinfonie Nr. 9, d-Moll, op. 125.
[Symphony No. 9, D Minor, op. 125]
Leipzig: Peters, 1975.
Call Number: MuR 785.1 B41 no9 P score
Sonate für Klavier und Violine: G-dur, opus 96.
[Violin Sonata, G Major, opus 96]
München: G. Henle Verlag, 1977.
With a Final Note by Martin Staehelin
Call Number: MuR 787.1 B41 s6 no10 score
Kesslersches Skizzenbuch: vollständiges Faksimile des Autographs.
[Kessler Sketchbooks]
Bonn: Beethovenhaus, 1978.
Call Number: MuR 780.262 B41 v5 I/5
2 Volumes
Volume 1: Transcription by Sieghard Brandenburg
Volume 2: Facsimile
Reviewed by Richard Kramer, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Autumn, 1980), pp. 596-601
Sämtliche Kadenzen = The complete cadenzas.
Zürich: Eulenburg, 1979.
Edited by Willy Hess
Call Number: MuR 785.6 B41 c7 score
General Editor: Alan Tyson
Call Number: MuR 785.724 B41 op59 no1 score
Review by: Richard Kramer, 19th-Century Music, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Summer, 1982), pp. 76-81
String quartet opus 59 no. 2: Second “Razumovsky” quartet, in E minor.
London: Scolar Press, 1980.
Introduction by Alan Tyson
Call Number: MuR 785.724 B41 op59 no2 score
Review by: Richard Kramer, 19th-Century Music, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Summer, 1982), pp. 76-81
Violin sonata in G major, op. 30, no. 3.
London: British Library, 1980.
With an introduction by Alan Tyson
Call Number: MuR 787.1 B41 s6 op30/3 score
Review by Richard Kramer, 19th-Century Music, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Summer, 1982), pp. 76-81
[Symphony No.9, Op. 125: Sketches of Finale “Joy, Beautiful divine spark”, “What fashion has rigidly sundered”]
Wien: Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, 1983.
Call Number: MuR 784.1840262 B41 s9 op125 score
Autographs; mit einem Vorwort ... in Neuauflage hrsg. von Martin Staehelin.
[Piano Sonata in C Major op. 53 (Waldstein)]
Bonn: Beethovenhaus, 1984.
With an Introduction by Martin Staehelin
Call Number: MuR 786.41 B41 op53 score
Sechs Bagatellen für Klavier op. 126: Faksimile der Handschriften und der Originalausgabe mit einem Kommentar.
[6 Bagatelles for Piano op. 126]
Bonn: Beethovenhaus, 1984.
Call Number: MuR 786.41 B41 op126
2 volumes
Volume 1: Autograph and sketches
Volume 2: Original version, Transcription, Commentary
Review by David B. Levy, Notes Second Series, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Mar., 1988), pp. 555-557
Kulturbesitz.
[Symphony No. 5, C Minor, Opus 67]
Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 2002.
Mit einem Kommentar herausgegeben von Rainer Cadenbach
Call Number: MuR 784.2184 B41 no.5 M score
Artaria 195: Beethoven's sketchbook for the Missa solemnis and the Piano sonata in E major, opus 109.
Transcribed, edited, and with a commentary by William Kinderman
Urbana, Ill: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
Call Number: MuR 780.262 B41 a7
3 Volumes
Volume 1: Commentary
Volume 2: Facsimile
Volume 3: Transcription
A sketchbook from the year 1821 (Artaria 197): sketches for the Agnus Dei and other movements of the Missa solemnis, the piano sonatas op. 110 and op. 111, and the canon WoO 182.
Edited by William Drabkin
Bonn: Verlag Beethoven-Haus, 2010.
Call Number: MuR 780.262 B41 s4 Bd.8 score
Volume 1: Facsimile
Volume 2: Transcription and commentary
Reviewed by Nicholas Marston, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 10, (2013), pp. 174-178
Sinfonie no. 9, op. 125 : autograph, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Beethoven- Haus Bonn,
Bibliothèque nationale de France
[Symphonies, no. 9, op. 125, D minor]
Kassel : Bärenreiter, 2010
Call Number: MuR 784.2184 B41 s9 no.9 L8 score
Commentary
'The Ninth: Past and Present' by Lewis Lockwood
'Composing the Ninth' by Jonathan Del Mar
'The Checkered History of a Manuscript' by Martina Rebmann
(in English, German and Japanese)
Missa solemnis: op.123: Autograph Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2016.
Call Number: MuR 782.5323 B41 m6 score
In English and German
Commentary
Selected Monographs/ Book chapters
Cooper, Barry.
Beethoven and the creative process.
Oxford [England]: Clarendon Press, 1990.
Call Number: Music 780.92 B41 C77
Drabkin, William.
Beethoven, Missa solemnis.
Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Call Number: X 782.3232 B41 m6 D7
Drabkin, William.
Kinderman, 14-19.
San Jose State University, 1991.
Call Number: Music 780.92 B41 K5
Isham Library Conference, Christoph Wolff, and Robert Riggs.
1979.
Cambridge, Mass: Dept. of Music, Harvard University, 1980.
Call Number: Music 785.70471 W8
Johnson, Douglas Porter.
“The Artaria Collection of Beethoven Manuscripts: A New Source,” In Beethoven Studies, edited by Alan Tyson, 174-236.
New York: W.W. Norton, 1973.
Call Number: Music 780.92 B41 T
Johnson, Douglas Porter.
Beethoven’s Early Sketches in the ‘Fischhof Miscellany’: Berlin Autography 28. (Volumes I and II). Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley. 1978.
Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, 1980.
Call Number: X 780.943B B41 J66 v.1-2
Johnson, Douglas Porte.
Tyson, edited by Alan Tyson and Sieghard Brandenburg, 225-35.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.
Call Number: Music 780.9033 H41 B8
Johnson, Douglas Porter, Alan Tyson, and Robert Winter.
The Beethoven sketchbooks: history, reconstruction, inventory.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
Call Number: X 780.943B B41 J
Kramer, Richard.
“The Sketch Itself” In Beethoven's compositional process, edited by William Kinderman, 3-5.
Jose State University, 1991.
Call Number: Music 780.92 B41 K5
Nottebohm, Gustav, and Gustav Nottebohm.
Two Beethoven sketchbooks: a description with musical extracts.
London: Gollancz, 1979.
Call Number: X 780.943B B41 N9
Winter, Robert.
Forbes, Lewis Lockwood, and Phyllis Benjamin, 217-250.
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Department of Music, 1984.
Call Number: Music 780.92 B41 L
Selected Journal Articles
Drabkin, William. 1972. “Some relationships between the autographs of Beethoven's sonata in C minor, opus 111.” Current Musicology 13: 38-47.
Drabkin, William. 1993. “The Sketches and Autographs for the Later Movements of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis.”Beethoven Forum 2, no. 1: 97-132.
Drabkin, William. 2007. “The Songs and the Sketches for the Allegro molto from Beethoven’s Op. 110.” Beethoven Forum 14, no. 1:44-72.
Elliot, Patricia. 1990. “Studies in Beethoven Bibliography: A History and List of the ‘Lost Berlin’ Beethoven Music Manuscripts.” Beethoven Newsletter 5: 1-7.
References
Klein, Hans-Günter.
Ludwig van Beethoven: Autographe und Abschriften: Katalog.
Berlin: Merseburger, 1975.
Call Number: MuR 016.78092 B41 K
Dorfmüller, Kurt, and Georg Kinsky.
Beiträge zur Beethoven-Bibliographie: Studien und Materialien zum Werkverzeichnis von Kinsky-Halm.
München: Henle, 1978.
Call Number: MuR 016.78092 B41 D6
The Beethoven bibliography database is an open source and a fully-indexed bibliography of published (and selected unpublished) materials relating to Ludwig van Beethoven. It contains over 10,000 records and much indispensable information on Beethoven. Materials included in the Database come from the Center's own rich collection of books, first and early editions of scores, manuscripts (originals and facsimiles), and periodical articles.