L. v. Beethoven. First edition, second issue of the "Elegischer Gesang", Op. 118, [c. 1827]

Ludwig van Beethoven

...Elegischer Gesang für 4 Singstimmen, mit Begleitung von 2 Violinen, Viola und Violoncello, oder des Pianoforte...118^tes Werk [parts], Vienna: Haslinger, [c. 1827]

FIRST EDITION, second issue, score, complete parts and piano arrangement of the instrumental parts, 7 (score), [1] (soprano), [1] (alto), [1] (Tenor), [1] (bass), [1] (violin I), [1] (violin II), [1] (viola), [1] (violoncello), 2 (piano) pages, 4to (c. 31.5 x 24cm), engraved throughout, plate number T.H.4735, ownership inscription to title ("Ernst Rudorff...Lichtenstein's Nachlass..."), nineteenth-century blue wrappers with manuscript label to each part 

Beethoven's exquisite song, scored for four voices and string orchestra, was composed in 1814 in memory of Eleonore, wife of Baron Johann Baptist von Pasqualati, who had died in childbirth.

LITERATURE:

Ludwig van Beethoven. Thematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis, i, p. 760 ("Spätere Auflagen" no. 1); Hoboken 481