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The Beethoven Sketchbooks: History, Reconstruction, Inventory

Johnson, Douglas Porter: Alan Tyson and Robert Winter

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; color illustrated dj, mylar cover; xx, 611 pp; bw illustrations. Good/Good (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.Light shelfwear to boards, block, dj. Pages are otherwise clear.). Item #185821
ISBN: 9780520048355

Contents: Background. Introduction ; A survey of the principal collections ; Techniques for reconstructing the sketchbooks -- The desk sketchbooks. Chronological charts ; Survey of the individual sketchbooks -- The pocket sketchbooks. Additional techniques of reconstruction ; Preliminary list of unstitched single-sheet pocket gatherings ; Chronological chart ; Survey of the individual sketchbooks -- Sketches in score for the late quartets. Additional techniques of reconstruction ; Survey of the manucripts by work ; String quartet in E major, opus 127 ; String quartet in A minor, opus 132 ; String quartet in B major, opus 130 ; String quartet in C minor, opus 131 ; String quartet in F major, opus 135 ; New finale to the string quartet in B major, opus 130 -- Some problematical cases. Beethoven Sketches before Grasnick I ; Sketches for the String quartets, opus 59 (1806) ; Sketches for the Fifth piano concerto, opus 73 (1809) ; Some sketches for opus 115, opus 117, and opus 113 (1811) ; Sketches for the Piano sonata, opus 106 (1817-1818) -- Appendix A : Watermarks of the principal paper-types -- Appendix B : The Nachlass auction catalogue.