L11406

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Lot 90
  • 90

Beethoven, Ludwig van.

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Early editions of sonatas for piano
  • paper
Grande Sonate [Op.26], first German edition, Leipzig, Bureau de musique, [c.1802], 19 pages, plate no,118, [Hoboken 136]--Sonata quasi una Fantasia Op.27, no.2, [the "Moonlight"], Vienna, Cappi, [c.1806], 15 pages, plate no.879, green cloth folder, [Hoboken 144], creasing and tears to margins--Trois Sonates, Op. 31, nos 1-3, "Edition tres Correcte...Prix 6 francs", Bonn, Simrock, [1803-1804], 65 pages, plate no.345 [cf Hoboken 171-172]--Sonate, Op.110, Vienna, Cappi & Czerny, [c.1826], 15 pages, plate 2500--Deux Sonates...Liv[raison] 1. [Cello Sonata Op.102, no.1], first edition, Bonn: Simrock, [1817], in score, lacking the separate cello part, [Hoboken 423]

Condition

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Catalogue Note

The Leipzig edition of the Sonata in A flat, Op.26, is almost contemporary with the Viennese edition by Cappi.