L. v. Beethoven. First Vienna edition in parts of the folksong variations op.105, 1819

Ludwig van Beethoven

Six thêmes variés bien faciles à éxécuter pour le piano-forte seul ou avec accompagnement d'une flûte ou d'un violon...Oeuvre 105 N.^o ['1...2': in manuscript] [parts], Vienna: Artaria, [1819]

FIRST VIENNA EDITION IN PARTS, 13, 13, 3, 3, 3, 3 pages, folio (keyboard part: 31.2 x 25cm; flute and violin parts: 34 x 25.5cm), engraved throughout, plate numbers 2594 and 2595, the keyboard part disbound, the other parts loose, browning to title-page and to edges of flute and violin parts, traces of label formerly covering imprint and remains of a paper strip to upper inner corner of title, last leaf of keyboard part loose

Artaria's edition, in parts, of six folksong variations appeared in September 1819, only a few months after the first English edition, in score, published by Preston and Thomson.

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

LITERATURE

BWV, i, pp.656-661; Hoboken, ii 432 and 433