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Receipt signed by Carl van Beethoven (1806-1858), dated Iglau, 6 August 1827, for 20 Gulden received from Herr Hauptmann Chevalier de Montluisant.
Auction House: Stargardt (Berlin) Date of Sale: 06/23/2009
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First edition of the Quatuor pour deux violons, viola et violoncelle, op. 74, parts (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1810]), plate no. 1609, price 1 Rthr. 8 gr.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 06/10/2009
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Musica vocale per uso de' Concerti Let. B. Scene ed Aria (Ah! perfido, sperguiro), first edition, soprano part with keyboard arrangement and 11 orchestral parts. Leipzig: Bureau de music, [1805].
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 06/10/2009
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Autograph letter signed "Claude" [Debussy] to Pierre Louys, describing the "14th quartet" of Beethoven as a long practical joke, despite what young savants say about it in L'art et la Vie, and expressing the wish not to be wearied any more with old stuff that doesn't even have any period charm ..., 2 p., octavo, autograph envelope ("Monsieur Pierre Louys"), [Paris], Feb. 1895.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 06/10/2009
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Early edition of An die ferne Geliebte (Vienna: Steiner), plate number S. et C.2610, price "f 1.30 x C.M", sold with first edition of the Vier Arietten und ein Duett, op. 83.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 06/10/2009
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First edition of An die Hoffnung von Tiedge, op. 32 (Vienna: Kunst und Industrie Comptoir, [1805]), plate no. 502, sold with early editions of the Gellert Lieder, op. 48, and the Variations of piano, WoO 69.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 06/10/2009
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One-bar fragment notated in brown ink on three staves, with autograph figuring and with numerous autograph deletions and revisions. 1 p., approx. 5 x 6.7 cm., cut from a larger leaf with three staves visible, apparently from the lower inner edge of an oblong quarto leaf, modern card frame, no place or date.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 06/10/2009
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Early autograph sketchleaf for the Octet for two oboes, two clarinets, two horns, and two bassoons, op. 103, and for the Piano Trio op. 1, no. 3, and for several other unidentified works. 2 p., oblong quarto (ca. 23 x 30 cm.), 16-stave paper, watermarked "PS," written in brown ink on 16 staves per page mainly on 2-stave systems, containing several distinct passages, including a version of the main theme of the Finale of the Piano Trio op. 1, no. 3 with, on the verso, a composing draft of the conclusion of the Wind Octet Op. 103, a passage of some forty-four bars extending over ten staves, the lower half of the page also containing a series of intensively-worked sketches for an unidentified work, with revisions, deletions and alterations, the manuscript annotated by the composer with various titles and references ("Seite 1000;" "Mineur;" "h moll," "c moll," "3mal," "imitation") and performance markings ("3mal," "tremolo;" "cres").
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 06/10/2009
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Corrected first proof of the first edition of the three Sonatas for piano, Opus 2, published by Artaria in 1796. 51 p., oblong quarto, engraved, plate number 614, with over 60 proof-corrections to 75 bars of music, mainly written in orange-red crayon (a few in pencil) in the staves, a few annotated in ink in the margins, with a four-bar passage of fingering written in brown ink by other hands on p. 9, and a few notes on hand-drawn staves in the margins, some trimming cropping the marginalia.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 06/10/2009
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First edition of the Fantaisie pour le pianoforte, op. 77 (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel), plate no. 1566, price "16 gr.," sold with early edition of Opus 106
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 06/10/2009
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Early edition of the Hammerklavier Sonata (Vienna: Artaria, [1832-1833], plate no. 2588, price 3 f. 12 xC.M., without a catalog of compositions, offered with first edition of the Fantaisie for Piano, op. 77
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 06/10/2009
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Autograph letter signed "Claude" [Debussy] to Pierre Louys describing the "14th quartet" of Beethoven as a long practical joke and expressing the wish not to be wearied any more with old stuff that doesn't even have any period charm. 2 p., octavo, with autograph envelope, dated [Paris] February 1895.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 06/10/2009
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Manuscript album of fifteen vocal duets and trios by Cimarosa, Haydn, and others, together with a collection of manuscript performance parts for Fidelio, notated in full score on up to twelve staves per page, in two early nineteenth-century hands, ... the performance parts for Fidelio in Italian and German, dating from around the 1840s, some with the stamp of the Berliner Kunstverein, others with the stamp of the Bibliotheca Landsbergiana, containing music from the finales to both acts and the trio in Act 1, one dated 1843, several hundred pages, 28 x 22 cm.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 06/10/2009
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LIme Sonate pour Pianoforte, first edition, Opus 54. Vienna: Bureau des arts et d'industrie, [1806].
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 06/10/2009
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First German edition of the Sechs Lieder von Gellert, op. 48 (Bonn: N. Simrock, [1803]), plate no. 36, offered with the first edition of An die Hoffnung, op. 32, and an early edition of the Variations for piano, WoO 69.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 06/10/2009
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Early edition of the Variazioni della Thema Quant' è più bello l'Amor contadino nell' opera La Molinara, WoO 69 (Vienna; G. Traeg, [1796]), plate no. 3, price 40 Xr., offered with the first edition of An die Hoffnung, op. 32, and an early edition of the Sechs Lieder von Gellert, op. 48.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 06/10/2009
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Vier Arietten und ein Duett, Opus 82, first edition (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1811), sold with an early edition of An die ferne Geliebte, Opus 98.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 06/10/2009
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Manuscript fragment of the Biographischen Notizen from Ignaz von Seyfried's Ludwig van Beethovens Studien im Generalbasse, Contrapuncte und in der Compositions-Lehre from ca. 1832. 13 p., octavo and quarto.
Auction House: Ketterer Kunst Date of Sale: 05/18/2009
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First edition parts of the Adagio, Variationen und Rondo für Pianoforte, Violine und Violoncelle, op. 121 (Vienna: S.A. Steiner, [1824]). Sold in lot of five first and early editions.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/03/2008
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First edition. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1810]. Sold in lot of 5 first and early editions.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/03/2008
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Autograph manuscript of a contrapuntal study, one-bar fragment notated in brown ink on three staves, with autograph figuring and with numerous autograph deletions and revisions. 1 p., ca. 5 x 6.7 cm., cut down from a larger leaf with three staves visible, apparently from the lower inner edge of an oblong quarto leaf, modern card frame, no place or date.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/03/2008
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First edition of the vocal score of the Gesänge und Zwischenacte zu Egmont Trauerspiel von Göthe für das Pianoforte, op. 84. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1812].
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/03/2008
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Second issue of the score. Mainz: Schott, [1826]. Sold in lot of five first and early editions.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/03/2008
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Later issue of the first edition of the parts, with title only on the Violin I part. Berlin: Schlesinger, [1827?].
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/03/2008
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Receipt signed by Beethoven, dated Vienna, March 27, 1820, acknowledging receipt of a sealed letter from Olmütz, delivered through S. A. Steiner & Co.1 p., quarto (ca. 20 x 19cm). This receipt appears to relate to a letter from Archduke Rudolf to Beethoven explaining his departure from Vienna (BG 1375), although it is not clear from this receipt whether Beethoven is acknowledging this letter or another one containing money.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/03/2008
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First edition of the score. Mainz & Paris: B. Schotts Söhnen, [1826]. Folio, [4], 226 p., with subscription list, bound in contemporary half calf, ownership inscription on flyleaf of the conductor Paul Richter.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/03/2008
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"Ich bitt dich, ich bitt dich, schreib mir die Es Scala auf," canon in three voices, WoO 172. Manuscript with Beethoven's autograph inscription to Vincenz Hauschka, 1 leaf (1 p.), oblong (9.3 x 25 cm.), ink, inscribed "Canone a tre voci dedicato al signor illustrissimo Hauschka del servo suo L.v. Beethoven" at top, ca. 1818.
Auction House: Piasa Date of Sale: 11/20/2008
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Autograph letter signed from Beethoven to Nikolaus Zmeskall von Domanovecz, no place or date [inscribed “28 febr. [1]812” in another hand], regarding the opening of the opera house at Pest. 1 p., 17.5 x 24 cm., without an opening salutation, inscribed on verso (”été donné par mr.le.cte Maurice de Dietrichstein à Vienne, avril 1834”). offered in a lot of 56 autograph letters of composers
Auction House: Delorme & Collin du Bocage Date of Sale: 11/14/2008
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Autograph letter signed from Beethoven to Archduke Rudolph, Baden, end of July-early August, 1825. 1 double leaf, 3 written pages
Auction House: Delorme & Collin du Bocage Date of Sale: 11/14/2008
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1 card
Auction House: Delorme & Collin du Bocage Date of Sale: 11/14/2008
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First edition, full score (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1826]). PN 4302, with printed wrapper
Auction House: Freeman's (Philadelphia) Date of Sale: 10/19/2008
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Messo a quattro voci coll' accompagnamento dell orchestra, opus 86. First edition of the full score (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1812]). PN 1667.
Auction House: Freeman's (Philadelphia) Date of Sale: 10/19/2008
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First edition, trade issue, full score (Paris: B. Schott, 1827]). PN 2346. Folio, original cloth-backed printed paper bords, with price but lacking list of subscribers.
Auction House: Freeman's (Philadelphia) Date of Sale: 10/19/2008
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First edition, full score and parts (Mainz: B. Schott fils, [1825]). PN 2262. Lacks the bassoon parts.
Auction House: Freeman's (Philadelphia) Date of Sale: 10/19/2008
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Sonate(s) pour le piano-forte (Offenbach: J. Andre, ca. 1850-1870). Contains lithographed reprint editions of the piano sonatas, opus 2 - opus 81a.
Auction House: Freeman's (Philadelphia) Date of Sale: 10/19/2008
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"Resignation" [Des Kriegers Abschied], WoO 143. Wiener Zeitschrift für Kunst, Literatur, Theater und Mode, Vienna, 1818, first and second quarters, 2 v. in 8, octavo, 19th century closth-backed marbled boards, with 2 folded plates of engraved music including "Resignation."
Auction House: Freeman's (Philadelphia) Date of Sale: 10/19/2008
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First edition parts (Vienna: S.A. Steiner, [1816]). PN 2581. Original wrappers.
Auction House: Freeman's (Philadelphia) Date of Sale: 10/19/2008
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Quatour pour deux violons, alto et violoncello, opus 127. First edition, parts (Mainz: B. Schott, [1826]). PN 2351
Auction House: Freeman's (Philadelphia) Date of Sale: 10/19/2008
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Troisieme quatour pour 2 violons, alte & violoncelle, opus 130. First edition, full score (Vienna: M. Artaria, [1827]). PN M. A. 870
Auction House: Freeman's (Philadelphia) Date of Sale: 10/19/2008
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Trois Quatuors pour deux violons, alto et violoncello, opus 59. First edition, parts (Vienna: Bureau des arts et d'Industrie, [1808]). PN 580, 584, 585
Auction House: Freeman's (Philadelphia) Date of Sale: 10/19/2008
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Quatour pour deux violons, viola et violoncello, opus 74. First edition, parts (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1810]). Pn 1609.
Auction House: Freeman's (Philadelphia) Date of Sale: 10/19/2008
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Grande Simphonie en si b majeur (B dur), opus 60. First edition, first issue, full score (Bonn: Simrock, [1823]). PN 2078
Auction House: Freeman's (Philadelphia) Date of Sale: 10/19/2008
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Sixième sinfonie pastorale en fa majeur: F dur, opus 68. First edition, full score (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1826]). PN 4311.
Auction House: Freeman's (Philadelphia) Date of Sale: 10/19/2008
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Concerto pour le violon avec accompagnement ..., opus 61. Early edition of complete set of parts (Vienna: T. Haslinger, [ca. 1812]). PN S.U.C. 4022.H., with bookseller's label (F.I. Rothlin) at foot of title page of violin I part.
Auction House: Freeman's (Philadelphia) Date of Sale: 10/19/2008
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Autograph leaf from a conversation book containing a shopping list and comments about the carpenter, wigmaker, doctor, Anton Schindler, and Clementi's Clavierschule, no place/date [Vienna, Dec. 1826?]. 1 p., octavo, irregularly cut (ca. 19.3 x 12.5 cm.), on a guard, modern quarter calf, written in pencil in Beethoven's hand, with annotations on the verso in the hand of Carl Holz
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/15/2008
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Autograph letter from Carl Czerny to Robert Cocks, Vienna, Jan, 30, 1852, about his article on Beethoven sent to the Musical Miscellany, sold with an autograph document recommending a Mälzel device. 2 p., large quarto, integral autograph address-panel, postmarked trace or seal, seal-tear, some spotting and browning, creased at folds.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/15/2008
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Collection of autograph letters and autograph musical quotations, including a letters from Ferdinand David and Henri Vieuxtemps about Beethoven's String Quartet, Opus 135. Letter from David to Vieuxtemps contains 10 musical examples from Opus 135; reply from Vieuxtemps contains reference to Opus 135. No further description available.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/15/2008
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Six autograph letters and one letter signed from Clara Schumann, one requesting copies of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, with two autograph letters by Felix Moscheles. No description of letter about Beethoven available; dated ca. 1863.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/15/2008
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Grande Fugue tantôt libre, tantôt recherchée. First edition of the parts. Vienna: Matthias Artaria, [1827]. Four parts (10, 9, 9, 8 pp.), engraved throughout, plate number M.A. 877, tear to title (detached), some foxing.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/15/2008
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Letter signed by Beethoven to Mortiz Schlesinger in Paris, dated September 29, 1826, from Vienna, about delivery of his string quartet, op. 135. 1 p., quarto (ca. 25.5 x 20 cm.), text and address panel in the hand of Beethoven's nephew Karl, endorsed by Tobias Haslinger, some seal tears not affecting the text, trace of seal.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/15/2008
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Lock of Beethoven's hair, framed and glazed, previously owned by Anselm Hüttenbrenner, taken from Beethoven on his deathbed. Hair strands with follicles, in framc (ca. 25 x 30 cm.), with a 2-p. autograph note of authentication signed by Ludwig Carl Seydler (to whom Hüttenbrenner gave the lock),dated May 5, 1881, attached to the lock by a green thread and contained behind the frame's removable back, and a note of authentication by Seydler's son, Anton, with his stamp on the back of the frame.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/15/2008
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Autograph sketchleaf for the Piano Sonata in A-flat major, Opus 110 containing a passage for the second movement in the Trio section in D flat major, no date [Vienna, probably around late 1821]. 2 p. (ca. 9.5 x 31 cm.), on a 4-stave strip cut from a larger leaf, notated in pencil on two systems per page, the staves extended into the margins, with deletions, cues and alterations, comprising about 23 bars of music in all, without dynamics or tempo markings.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/15/2008
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Sinfonia Eroica, first edition, corrected issue, complete set of parts.Vienna: Contor delle arte e d'industria, [1806]. Parts for 2 violins, violas, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 3 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and bass; quarto, engraved throughout, plate number 512, price erased on title page, composer's preface, original stitching, good margins, watermarks "P A M," "V" and shield.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/15/2008
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Siebente Grosse Sinfonie in A dur. First edition, early issue, complete set of parts. Vienna: S.A. Steiner, [1816]. Parts for 2 violins, viola, violoncello & basso, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets and timpani, engraved throughout, plate number 2561, unpriced on title page, dedication leaf in Violin 1 (lacking the "Musik Anzeige"), original stitching, uncut.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/15/2008
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Wellingtons-Sieg oder Die Schlacht bey Vittoria First edition of the parts. Vienna: S. A. Steiner, [1816]. 36 orchestral parts, including extra parts for trumpets, drums, cannons and rattles, engraved title, lithographed music, plate no. 2363, "Bemerkungen für die Aufführung" loosely inserted, subscription advertisement in Violin 1, uncut, original stitching, contemporary ownership inscription tot title.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/15/2008
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Albert Sammons's printed copy of Beethoven's Violin Concerto, signed, with his autograph cadenzas and performance markings throughout. 26 p., folio (ca. 30 x 23 cm.), the printed part for solo violin assembled from 2 separate editions, with a letter of authentication from the violinist's daughter, no dates.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/04/2007
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Autograph letter signed by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy to an unnamed Viennese music professor about Beethoven, copies of whose manuscripts his correspondent had offered to provide him with. 4 p., octavo, dated Berlin, 4 March 1844
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/04/2007
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Autograph letter signed "Beethoven" to Baron Ignaz von Gleichenstein, apparently a covering letter to Therese Malfatti. 1 p., ca. 18.8 x 22 cm., no place or date [Vienna, towards the end of May 1810], together with an autograph letter to William Reeves and an autograph translation and transcription of the letter by Emily Anderson
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/04/2007
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Mendelssohn's copies of Beethoven's piano sonatas, bound for him and signed twice on the fly-leaves. Vienna: Tobias Haslinger, [1828-1830]. 30 editions in two volumes, folio (ca. 32 x 25 cm.), engraved throughout, titles in brown and black, engraved dedication leaves, contemporary German romantic presentation binding, green calf, gilt spine and edges, gilt auggering.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/04/2007
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Mendelssohn's copies of Beethoven's piano trios, bound for him and signed on the fly leaf, containing editions of opp. 1, 11, 44, 70, 97, 121a, with first editions of WoO 38 and WoO 39. Leipzig, Vienna & Frankfurt: Peters, Haslinger, F.P. Dunst, 1829-1830. 11 editions in one volume, with the parts for violin and cello loosely inserted, folio (ca. 32 x 25 cm.), engraved music (WoO 38 and 39 lithographed), engraved dedication leaf to op. 97, contemporary German romantic presentation binding, green calf, gilt spine and edges, gilt gauffering.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/04/2007
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Sonata pour le piano forte ... oeuv. 111. Berlin: chez Ad. Mt. Schlesinger, [1823]. First edition, 27 pages, folio (29.4 x 24 cm.), engraved throughout, plate number 1160, price 1 Rh 8g, bookseller's label, disbound.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/04/2007
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Autograph manuscript of the Melodrama from Leonore Prohaska, WoO 96, 1814. 1 leaf (1 written page), pasted to a card, with music and text in Beethoven's hand, notes in another hand in German
Auction House: Skinner (Boston) Date of Sale: 11/18/2007
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Autograph note signed by Beethoven to Nikolaus Zmeskall, no place/date [Vienna, possibly 1811], requesting a copy of a quartet by "A" [Léopold Aimon?]. 7 lines on one page, oblong quarto (13.2 x 18.6 cm.), cut down from a larger sheet, no watermark, later annotation "Beethoven" on verso.
Auction House: Christie's (London) Date of Sale: 07/03/2007
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Autograph letter from Beethoven to Ferdinand Ries, Vienna, November 10, 1819. 1 leaf (3 p.), quarto, with lacquer seal and address.
Auction House: Stargardt (Berlin) Date of Sale: 06/26/2007
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Collection of manuscript performance parts for Fidelio for performances in Italian and German, dating from around the 1840s. Several hundred pages, 28 x 22 cm., some with the stamp of the Berliner Kunstverein, others with the stamp of the Bibliotheca Landsbergiana, containing music from the finales to both acts and the trio in Act 1, one dated 1843
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/23/2007
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117 p., quarto (violin part) and oblong quarto (piano part), comprising six separate fascicles (one for each movement for both piano and violin), using seven different paper types. Piano part (80 p.), each movement in the hand of a different copyist on different paper types (watermarks man-in-the-moon/A.M; crossbow/AM; EGA) with Beethoven's handwritten corrections in the third movement and additional corrections by Ries. Violin part (37 p.) on three different 10-stave paper types, with crossbow and crescent moon watermarks, annotated and corrected by Ries throughout.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/23/2007
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Messe ... 86tes Werke, arrangirt von O. Claudius. First edition of the vocal score. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1827]. Oblong quarto. Offered with first edition of the Opferlied, Opus 121b, score.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/23/2007
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[2], 7 p., folio, engraved throughout, plate no. 2279, unbound. Offered with the first edition of the vocal score of the Mass in C, Opus 86.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/23/2007
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Grand Quatuor en partition pour deux violons, alto et violoncelle ... Oeuvre 131. Mainz: chez les fils de B. Schott, [1827]. Score, 50 p., octavo, lithographed title and music, pplate no. 2692, stamps of the Herzogliche Capelle zu Dessau, nineteenth-century card wrappers retaining the label from the original wrappers, lacking the "Belage" present in the earliest issues.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/23/2007
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Two letters from Therese Brunsvik to Franz Brunsvik dated Jan. 18, 1832, and April 18, 1832, discussing a portrait of Beethoven that she would like copied, noting that it can be returned in 4 weeks. 4 pages, large octavo (ca. 21 x 12.5 cm.), integral autograph address panels, traces of seals
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/23/2007
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XII Variations pour le Clavecin ou Piano-Forte avec un Violoncello obligé sur un theme de Händel [WoO 45]. Vienna: Artaria, [1797]. Piano part: 12 p.; violoncello part: 3 p., oblong quarto, engraved throughout, plate no. 710, red silk back-strip over stitching, modern folder, the violoncello part bound in between pp. 2 and 3 of the piano part.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/23/2007
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Autograph letter signed “Beethoven” to Ignaz Czapka, no place or date [shortly after September 26, 1926]. 3 p., large quarto (2.39 x 2.14 cm) integral autograph address leaf, paper seal, seal tear affecting one word of text, repairs to integral address leaf, splits to two folds, minute paper loss at two different intersecting folds (not affecting text), a small marginal tear at bottom left corner.
Auction House: Sotheby's (New York) Date of Sale: 12/11/2006
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Autograph letter signed from Beethoven to Nikolaus Zmeskall von Domanovecz, no place or date [inscribed “28 febr. [1]812” in another hand], regarding the opening of the oepra house at Pest. 1 p., 17.5 x 24 cm., without an opening salutation, inscribed on verso (”été donné par mr.le.cte Maurice de Dietrichstein à Vienne, avril 1834”)
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2006
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Autograph letter signed from Beethoven to Countess Marie Erdödy about the “Archduke” Trio, Opus 97, no place or date [Vienna, March 1815] 2 p., octavo (20.8 x 12.9 cm), integral blank, autograph address panel, red wax seal with Beethoven’s monogram (”LVB”), small seal tear, traces of mount, creasing, a few tiny stains
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2006
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Vienna: Joseph Czerny, [after 1810]. Lot contained 8 early editions of Beethoven’s works for piano
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2006
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2e. edition Vienna: Joseph Czerny, [no date]. Lot contained 8 early editions of Beethoven’s works for piano
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2006
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Vienna: Bureau d’arts et d’industrie, [after 1802]. Without final blank leaf. In lot containing 4 early editions and an edition of Steibelt’s Opus 90.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2006
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First edition. Vienna: Bureau d’Arts et d’Industrie, 1805.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2006
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Marche Militaire pour le piano-forte. Oeuvre posthume. Vienna: A.O Witzendorf, [ca. 1850-1851]. PN 2000. Price 20 xcm. 6 pp. Lot contained 8 early editions of Beethoven’s works for piano
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2006
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Sonates pour le clavecin our piano-forte, Opus 2. Vienna: Artaria, [ca. 1806] In lot containing 4 early editions and an edition of Steibelt’s Opus 90.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2006
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Sechs Menuetten [specific work unidentified]. Vienna: Joseph Czerny, [no date]. PN 641. Lot contained 8 early editions of Beethoven’s works for piano
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2006
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Hambourg: Aug. Cranz, [ca. 1830]. PN 90. Pr. 14 Gr. Pages numbered 415-417. Lot contained 8 early editions of Beethoven’s works for piano
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2006
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Grand quatuor en partition pour deux violons, alto, et violoncelle, Opus 131. First edition of the score. Mainz: chez les fils de B. Schott, [1827].
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2006
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Quatuor pour deux violons, viola et violoncelle, Opus 74. First edition or the parts. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1810. Plate no. 1609, early issue, priced at 1 Thlr. 8 Gr., publisher’s stamp on title. Sold with an early issue of Opus 45 (Bureau d’arts et d'industrie)
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2006
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Trois grandes marches pour le pianoforte à quatre mains ... Oeuvre 45. Early edition. Vienna: Bureau d’arts et d’industrie, [1804]. Early issue, PN 358, priced at 1 fl. 24 Xr, without the publisher’s address in the imprint, some later manuscript annotations. Sold with a first edition of Opus 74 (Fe314).
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2006
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Variations pour le piano forte ... Oeuvre 76. Vienna: Bureau d’arts et d’industrie, [1810 or later]. Price erased. In lot containing 4 early editions and an edition of Steibelt’s Opus 90.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2006
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XIII. Variations pour le Clavecin our Piano-Forte sur l’Air: Es war einmal ein alter Mann, WoO 66. Vienna: Cappi et Czerny, [after 1793] Lot contained 8 early editions of Beethoven’s works for piano
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2006
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VIII. Variations pour le Clavecin ou Piano-Forte sur le Trio Tändeln und Scherzen, WoO 76. Vienna: Cappi et Czerny, [after 1799] Lot contained 8 early editions of Beethoven’s works for piano
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2006
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Trente deux variations pour le pianoforte, WoO 80. Vienna: Kunst und Industrie Comptoir, [1807 or later]. Price erased. In lot containing 4 early editions and an edition of Steibelt’s Opus 90.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2006
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Wellingtons-Sieg oder Die Schlacht by Vittoria, für piano-forte, violin und violonzello, Opus 91. Vienna: S.A. Steiner und Comp., [ca. 1816]. 3 parts, PN C.D.S. 2365, price handwritten “fl. 3.36x,” outer leaves of piano part detached. In lot containing 8 early editions of Beethoven’s works
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2006
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Autograph letter signed from Johann Nepomuk Hunczovsky to Franz Gerhard Wegeler, Vienna, July 23, 1796.. 3 p., quarto
Auction House: Stargardt Date of Sale: 11/21/2006
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Sketchleaf for unidentified works [later identified as the third movement of the Hammerklavier Sonata, Opus 106]. Recto with a 2 measures for a piano work, notations on two systems with the marking “6/8” and the words “auch in 3[/]4tel mit 16tel besser,” underneath with beginnings of a sketches for a work for violin and piano, possibly in A major, 9 measures on recto and 10 measures on verso, notations on three systems.2 p., 16 staves, rough paper, brown tint, small tears partially repaired
Auction House: Stargardt Date of Sale: 11/21/2006
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Die Hochzeit des Figaro: Ein Zyklus von 30 Federzeichnungen (The Marriage of Figaro: A Cycle of 30 Drawings) by Moritz von Schwind (1804-1871). Each sheet 25.5 x 36.5 cm., the final sheet signed and date ‘Maerz 1825.”
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 06/13/2006
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Bust of Beethoven by Alfredo Pina (1883-1996), signed “A. Pina.” Bronze, mid brown and green patina, on a veined green marble socle. Bronze: 49 cm.; socle: 22 cm.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 06/12/2006
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Bust of Beethoven by w. Baret, French, late 19th/early 20th century. Signed “Baret” and stamped bronze, variegated green patina, on a black slate plinth base. 48 cm. high.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 06/12/2006
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Original model for a monument to Beethoven by Théodore Rivière (1857-1912), signed by the artist. Terracotta, 77.9 cm.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 06/12/2006
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In frame
Auction House: EBay Date of Sale: 06/12/2006
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Vienna: Joseph Czerny, [after 1810]. Lot contained 7 early editions of Beethoven’s works for piano
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/19/2006
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2e. edition Vienna: Joseph Czerny, [no date]. Lot contained 7 early editions of Beethoven’s works for piano
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/19/2006
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First edition. Vienna: Hoffmeister; Leipzig: Bureau de musique, [1802]. PN 88. Price 1 Reichsthaler, ownership inscription on title page.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/19/2006
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