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L. v. Beethoven. Collection of first and early editions of works for piano

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

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December 13, 11:11 AM GMT

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1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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Ludwig van Beethoven


Collection of first and early editions of works for piano


Trois Sonates pour le Piano-Forte...Oeuv: II, Mainz: Zulehner, [c.1805] 55 pages, plate number 70


Grande Sonate pathétique Pour le Clavecin ou Piano-Forte...Oeuv: 13, Mainz: Schott, [c.1815], 17 pages, plate number 121


Sonata Quasi una Fantasia per il Piano-Forte...Opera 27. N:o ['2': in manuscript], Bonn: Simrock and Paris: aux adresses ordinaires, [1802-c.1817], 13 pages, plate number 227, title cropped and laid down on p.1 


Sonate pour le Piano-Forte...Oeuv: ['57': in manuscript], Mainz: Zulehner, [c.1808], CARL KLINGEMANN'S OWN COPY, signed by him on the title, 25 pages, plate number 154, price in manuscript, some leaves strengthened at hinge


Grande Sonate pour le Piano-Forte...Oeuvre 106, Vienna: Artaria etc., [1819], FIRST EDITION, WITH FRENCH TITLE, OF THE 'HAMMERKLAVIER' SONATA, 59 pages, plate number 2588


Sonate (in E-dur.) für das Piano-Forte...109tes Werk, Vienna: Haslinger, [after c.1828], 17 pages 


Sonate pour le Piano Forte...Oeuv. 111, Berlin: Schlesinger etc., [May (?) 1823], FIRST BERLIN EDITION, 27 pages, plate number 1160


Nouvelles Bagatelles faciles et agréables...Oeuv: 112, Vienna: Sauer & Leidesdorf, [1824], 12 pages, plate number "S.L.700"


8 volumes in one, folio (31.6 x 24.7cm), engraved music, some later pencil fingerings, manuscript label to upper cover in the hand of Ernst Rudorff ("Beethoven Sonaten für Pianoforte...Meine Mutter...M[eine] Eltern]..."), nineteenth-century half cloth, damp-staining to a few leaves, a few small repairs, trimmed by the binder


Formerly in the collection of the Berlin pianist and composer Ernest Rudorff (1840-1916).


Rudorff's fascinating manuscript label to the volume indicates the provenance of the various items that were bound together here: the 'Pathétique' and the 'Moonlight' sonatas (op.13 and op.27 no.2), for example, belonging originally to Rudorff's mother (Betty Pistor, Mendelssohn's early sweetheart), and the 'Appassionata' (op.57), to Mendelssohn's great friend Carl Klingemann.

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