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BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN Grande Sonate pour le Piano-Forte composée et dedié à Son Altesse Imperiale Monseigneur l'Archiduc Rudolphe d'Autriche, op.106, Vienna: Artaria et Compag:, [1819] FIRST EDITION, French title-page, 59 pages (c.32.5 x 25cm), 4to, engraved title ("A. Müller Sc.") and music, plate no.2588, uncorrected issue, unpriced on title, without the later-inserted catalogue, blue label of August Cranz (Hamburg) at foot of title, nineteenth-century marbled card wrappers, manuscript labels to cover and spine (annotated [by Ernst Rudorff]: "(Lichtenstein'scher Nachlass)"), bookseller's label removed from title The first edition of Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" Sonata op.106 in B-flat major, one of the towering peaks of the pianist's repertoire. This first issue is uncommon at auction: the only copy we have sold in recent years was in 2011. Pages 25 and 27 in the third movement are in their original uncorrected state. LITERATURE: Hoboken 435; Beethoven-Werk-Verzeichnis (2014), p.666 (III/1); cf. the copies Beethoven-Haus Bonn, C 106/1 and BL h.383.ss PROVENANCE: Ernst Rudorff (1840-1916), inherited from the collection of Marie Hoffmeister, née Lichtenstein (1817-1890).

View 1 of Lot 11: L. v. Beethoven. First edition of the "Hammerklavier" Sonata, op.106, 1819

l. v. beethoven. first edition of the "hammerklavier" sonata, op.106, 1819

seltenes hammerklavier, schweiz, luzern, um 1770, signiert, joseph fridolin rütschi,no.65

beethoven, ludwig van. fine autograph sketchleaf for the ``hammerklavier''...

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first edition of the Piano Sonata in A major, Op.101, [4 &] 19 pages, oblong 4to (c.24 x 32cms),  engraved titles and music, additional series title ("Musée Musical des Clavicinistes...1tes Heft..."), plate no.2661, no price on title, remains of original blue wrappers at joints, later card wrappers, book-plate of Siegfried Ochs, inscribed by him above the book plate ("Erster Druck der Sonate"), browning to title (staining from additional title), but a good clear copy overall [Hoboken 420; Kinsky, p.280]--Haydn, Joseph. Die Worte des Erloesers am Kreuz, Hob. XX/2, [full score], Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [1801] first edition of the "The Seven Last Words", 112 pages, large oblong 4to (c.27 x 36cms), engraved title with vignette, composer's preface (March 1801), type-set music, original publisher's orange wrappers, [Hoboken 1375; RISM H 25]

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