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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 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: Artaria, 1797. 6 p. plus blanks, oblong quarto (ca. 23.3 xy 33.5 cm). engraved throughout, plate no. 711, priced at 30 Xr, modern half calf binding, some light damp staining.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/19/2006
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Hambourg: Aug. Cranz, [ca. 1830]. PN 90. Pr. 14 Gr. Pages numbered 415-417. 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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Quatuor pour deux violons, viola et violoncelle, Opus 74. First edition or the parts. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1810. Plate no. 1609. Price 1 Thlr. 8 Gr. Publisher’s stamp on title page.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/19/2006
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Sinfonie mit Schluss-Chor über Schillers ode “An die Freude,” Opus 125. Mainz: Schott, 1826. First edition of the score with subscribers’ list, but without metronome markings. Eleborate engraved title with royal arms, engraved music, with final blank, early 19th century half calf binding, rebacked and recornered, without publisher’s wrappers.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/19/2006
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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 7 early editions of Beethoven’s works for piano
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/19/2006
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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 7 early editions of Beethoven’s works for piano
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/19/2006
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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 (piano: 21 p.; violin: 7 p.; violoncello: 7 p.), quarto, engraved throughout, PN C.D.S. 2365, price handwritten “fl. 3.36x,” outer leaves of piano part detached, some later handwritten annotations, music seller’s stamps.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/19/2006
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In the hand of two copyists (Joseph Linke and Karl Holz) with autograph additions and corrections in approx. 150 places consisting mostly of dynamic markings and some accidentals, titles and some notes in the hand of Marie Leins (daughter of Schlesinger), with two autograph inscriptions in the hand of nephew Karl [Vienna 1825]. Four manuscript parts (94 p.), 10 staves per page, a few pages with an eleventh stave drawn in by hand, black ink and pencil, quarto 32 x 25.5 cm., tied with modern ribbons but now all conjugate pairs of leaves disjoint (pair of stab holes through the inner blank corners, some staining and fraying to the edges), the paper apparently from a single stock, royal sheets watermarked with fleur-de-lys armorial
Auction House: Gros & Delletrez (Paris) Date of Sale: 05/17/2006
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Copyist’s manuscript of Opus 81a with autograph inscription on t.p. “Wien 1810 am 30tes jenner Geschrieben bej der Ankunft Seiner Kaiserl. Hoheit der Verehrten Erzherzogs Rudolf von Ludwig van Beethoven,” with autograph additions and corrections. Single quire of 10 leaves (19 p. including the title and two integral blanks), four systems on eight staves per page, black ink and pencil, oblong quarto, 23 x 30.5 cm., sewn (some Fraying to the edges), a single stock of paper, median sheets watermarked with merchant’s name Gebr. Kiesling
Auction House: Gros & Delletrez (Paris) Date of Sale: 05/17/2006
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Autograph letter, fragment, no place or date [Vienna, 8 Feb. 1823]. 2 p., fragment, the lower half of a larger leaf, ca. 13.5 x 18.8 cm., seal, transparent paper strip, bearing later manuscript facsimile of Beethoven’s signature from his letter to Peters of 5 June 182
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/01/2005
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Autograph letter signed from Giuseppe Verdi to Paris publisher Léon Escudier inviting him to attend a performance of Fidelio, no place or date [Paris, Jan. 1852?]. 1 p., octavo, ca. 21 x 13 cm., blue paper, embossed initials L E
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/01/2005
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Autograph manuscript for Beethoven’s piano, four hand transcription of the Grosse Fuge, Opus 134. 80 p. plus one opened paste-down (1 p.), oblong folio, 24.5 x 30.5 cm., bound with first edition of the work. Laid out in score, written in brown and black ink sometimes over pencil, later annotations in pencil and red crayon, some added as proof corrections, on ten-stave paper, various paper types. Bound with the first edition pub. by Artaria in 1827.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/01/2005
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First edition of the vocal score, first issue with no price on title, dedication leaf to Archduke Rudolph. Vienna: Artaria, 1814.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/01/2005
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Grosse Fuge arr. for piano, four hands. First edition. Vienna: Artaria, [1827]. Bound with autograph mss. of the score
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/01/2005
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First edition. Vienna: Artaria, 1797.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/01/2005
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Autograph letter signed from Ignaz Moscheles to Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient congratulating her on her London performance in Fidelio, London, May 19, 1832. 2 p., octavo, framed and glazed, with a translation.
Auction House: Christie's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2005
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Autograph manuscript of five British and Irish folk songs, including WoO 153/6, WoO 158/2/6; WoO 155/25; WoO 156/6, and Opus 108/24. 6 1/2 p., oblong folio (ca. 23.5 x 31.5 cm), 16 staves, on five leaves with later paginaztion “1” to “10”; p. 1, 2, and 10 are unused. In ink; three phrasing markings and a correction on p. 3 in penci
Auction House: Christie's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2005
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Collection of 8 receipts, 6 signed on Beethoven’s behalf, and a letter signed by Prince Ferdinand Kinsky about his payment of Beethoven’s annuity. 9 items: (1) letter signed by Kinsky to his cashier in Vienna (Budenitz, 20 June 1810); (2) receipt with Beethoven’s seal for 2,250 g. from Kinsky (31 July 1810); (3) five receipts, two with Beethoven’s seal, each for 450 g. from Kinsky (Sept. 13-Oct. 9, 1811); (4) two mss. documents confirmed payments to nephew Karl after the composer’s death (Sept. 13-Oct. 9, 1827)
Auction House: Christie's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2005
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Receipt signed “Ludwig van Beethoven m.p.” in Roman script acknowledging receipt of 600 g. from Prince Kinsky’s treasury [April 1, 1826]. 1 p., folio (ca. 35.5 x 21.5 cm.), numbered “Nro 107” with Beethoven’s red seal, with a second scribal signature, countersigned by the priest C. Santner, neat stamp at head (”2 Gulden W”).
Auction House: Christie's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2005
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Receipt signed “Ludwig van Beethoven” in large Roman script acknowledging receipt of 200 g. from Prince Kinsky’s treasury [August 28, 1826]. 1 p., folio (ca. 35.5 x 21.5 cm.), numbered “Nro 236”, with a second scribal signature, countersigned by the priest C. Santner, neat stamp at head (”30 Kreuzer W”), papered seal.
Auction House: Christie's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2005
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Receipt signed “Ludwig van Beethoven” in large Roman script acknowledging receipt of 240 g. from Prince Kinsky’s treasury [Feb. 25, 1827]. 1 p., folio, numbered “Nro 82”, with Beethoven’s red seal, with a second scribal signature, countersigned by the priest C. Santner, neat stamp at head (”30 Kreuzer W”), papered seal.
Auction House: Christie's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2005
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Autograph receipt signed “Ludwig van Beethowen m.p.” in German script acknowledging receipt of 600 g. from Prince Kinsky’s treasury [April 1, 1819]. 2 p., folio (ca. 35.5 x 21.5 cm.), numbered “Nro 73,” countersigned by Ferd. Füss, annotated on the second page in another hand, paper seal
Auction House: Christie's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2005
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Indentified by Nicholas Marston as a contrapuntal sketch using figured-bass notation to express the intervals between two invertible voices; the upper two staves to be read in the treble clef, the lower in the bass clef.. Fragment, written on one side only, cut from a larger leaf (possible from the bottom inner edge of an oblong quarto leaf), 3 staves visible, 4.5 x 6.4 cm, in brown ink, stitch hole (?from a sketchbook
Auction House: Bonhams Date of Sale: 11/08/2005
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Recto ontains a number of separate thematic ideas, one marked “sinfonie” and evidently in D minor, another marked “V[iolon]c[e]llo; verso: sketches for the Elegischer Gesant, Opus 118, including the words “Sanft,” “Sanft wie du,” “Sanft wie du lebte[st]” and “hast du.” 1 leaf (2 p.), fragment (evidently comprising the top right-hand quarter of an oblong quarto sketchleaf with untrimmed deckle edge to the right), ca. 16.6 x 14.8 cm., brown ink, no watermark visible (possibly a blank quadrant from JTW paper type 25), traces of mount on the leaf-hand border of the verso, diagonal crease.
Auction House: Bonhams Date of Sale: 11/08/2005
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Autograph letter signed by Beethoven to Johann Schickh, Hetzendorf, June 6, 1823. 1 p., quarto, signed “Beethoven”
Auction House: Stargardt Date of Sale: 06/28/2005
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Autograph letter dated April 6, 1829, from Peter Joseph von Lindpainter to the publisher C.F. Peters, mentioning Beethoven and Weber. 8 p, large quarto
Auction House: Stargardt Date of Sale: 06/28/2005
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Autograph letter dated August 1, 1838, from Gustav Wilhelm Teschner to Joseph Klein that mentions Beethoven’s symphonies. 3 p,, large quarto
Auction House: Stargardt Date of Sale: 06/28/2005
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First edition, score. Vienna: T. Haslinger, [1833].
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/20/2005
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[6], 25 p., octavo, engraved title and musical incipits, ownership inscription of “Cipriani Potter.” Bound with thematic catalog of Mozart’s works published by J. Adré in 1805.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/20/2005
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Letter in the hand of Franz Liszt to English publisher Frederick Beale regarding his transcription of Beethoven’s Gellert Lieder op. 48. 4 p., octavo (19 x 11 cm), no place or date
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/20/2005
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Sketchleaf containting a version of the main theme of the finale of the Piano Trio, Opus 1, no. 3 (recto) with a composing draft of the conclusion of the Wind Octet op. 103 (verso). Vienna, ca. 1792-1793. 2 p., oblong quarto (ca. 23 x 30 cm), 16-stave paper,brown ink, watermarked “PS,” with a note of provenance by the French composer Ambroise Thomas
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/20/2005
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First edition. Vienna: Bureau d’Arts et d’Industrie, 1804.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/20/2005
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First edition, full score. Vienna: Steiner, [1816].
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/20/2005
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Autograph manuscript of Ruf vom Berge, WoO 147. 4 p. including the dedication, oblong quarto (ca. 16 x 19.5 cm.), 9 staves, wove paper watermarked “Gebr. Kies”), lithographed staves and system-brackets, annotated by Aloys Fuchs at foot of the first page (”Ist als Zeitungs Beilage im J. 1817 gedruckt erschienen”), sewn into a modern album with acid-free paper, gilt lettered, half vellum boards and slipcase, Vienna, 13 [December 1816].
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/07/2004
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First edition. Vienna: Hoffmeister, [1802].
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/07/2004
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Deux sonates pour le piano forte, Opus 31, nos. 1-2. First edition. Zurich: Naiguili, [1803].
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/07/2004
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First edition of the parts. Leipzig: Breitkopt & Härtel, 1802. Plate no. 94. Sold with variant first edition of Opus 47 parts (Simrock).
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/07/2004
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First edition. Vienna: Artaria, 1797.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/07/2004
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Sketches for the String Quartet, Opus 127, almost entirely devoted to a continuous draft of a passage of fifty-four bars extending to the end of the recapitulation of the first movement, no place or date. 2 p., oblong quarto (ca. 25 x 32 cms), 16 staves, inscribed at the head in an early hand: “Esquise d’un Quatuor de L. de Beethoven, écrit par lui même.”
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/07/2004
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Autograph letter signed from Caroline Barbara van Beethoven to a musical friend in Leipzig, dated Dec. 13, 1874. 2 1/2 p.
Auction House: Stargardt (Berlin) Date of Sale: 11/23/2004
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Autograph letter signed from Joseph Deym von Stritetz to an unidentified man, dated Oct. 7, 1800. 1 p.
Auction House: Stargardt (Berlin) Date of Sale: 11/23/2004
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Christus am Oehlberge. Oratorium. Libretto, publisher and date unknown. With photographs from 1863 of the skulls of Beethoven and Schubert and an article from the Gemeinnützigen Unterhaltungs-Blätter from 1809 that mentions Beethoven.
Auction House: Stargardt (Berlin) Date of Sale: 11/23/2004
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2 poetry manuscripts, one dated 1804/1805. 4 p. and 16 p.
Auction House: Stargardt (Berlin) Date of Sale: 11/23/2004
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First edition of the arrangement for piano four hands. Vienna: Steiner, 1817. PN C.D.A.S. 2566 Lot included piano four hand arrangements of Opus 92, Opus 21, and Opus 60, with works by Carl Maria von
Auction House: Stargardt (Berlin) Date of Sale: 11/23/2004
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Symphonie .. arrangée à quatre mains ... par Charles Zulehner, Opus 21. Mainz: Zulehner, before 1812. Lot included piano four hand arrangements of Opus 92, Opus 21, and Opus 60, with works by Carl Maria von Weber and Haydn.
Auction House: Stargardt (Berlin) Date of Sale: 11/23/2004
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Grande Symphonie in B ... arrangé à 4 mains ... par W. Watts, Opus 60. Lot included piano four hand arrangements of Opus 92, Opus 21, and Opus 60, with works by Carl Maria von Weber and Haydn.
Auction House: Stargardt (Berlin) Date of Sale: 11/23/2004
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Autograph letter to Archduke Rudolph, no place or date [Baden, July-August 1825]. 3 p. large quarto, signed “Beethoven”
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Autograph receipt signed “Ludwig van Beethowen m.p.” in German script acknowledging receipt of 600 g. from Prince Kinsky’s treasury [April 1, 1819]. 2 p., folio (ca. 35.5 x 21.5 cm.), numbered “Nro 73,” countersigned by Ferd. Füss, annotated on the second page in another hand, paper seal
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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First edition. Vienna: Bureau d’arts, [1803]. In bound collection containing first and early editions of Opus 6 (Simrock), Opus 10 (f.e.), Opus 49 (Bureau d’arts), Opus 31, nos. 1-2, Opus 22 (f.e.), Opus 29, no. 1 (f.e.), Opus 7 (f.e.), Opus 33 (f.e.), and Opus 43, piano arr. (f.e.), with ownership inscription of Prince Ferdinand Kinsky (”Fr. K.” and later ownership inscription “E. Kinsky” (”E.K.”)
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Collection of 8 receipts, 6 signed on Beethoven’s behalf, and a letter signed by Prince Ferdinand Kinsky about his payment of Beethoven’s annuity. 9 items: (1) letter signed by Kinsky to his cashier in Vienna (Budenitz, 20 June 1810); (2) receipt with Beethoven’s sale for 2,250 g. from Kinsky (31 July 1810); (3) five receipts, two with Beethoven’s sale, each for 450 g. from Kinsky (Sept. 13-Oct. 9, 1811); (4) two mss. documents confirmed payments to nephew Karl after the composer’s death (Sept. 13-Oct. 9, 1827)
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Collection of 8 receipts, 6 signed on Beethoven’s behalf, and a letter signed by Prince Ferdinand Kinsky about his payment of Beethoven’s annuity. 9 items: (1) letter signed by Kinsky to his cashier in Vienna (Budenitz, 20 June 1810); (2) receipt with Beethoven’s seal for 2,250 g. from Kinsky (31 July 1810); (3) five receipts, two with Beethoven’s seal, each for 450 g. from Kinsky (Sept. 13-Oct. 9, 1811); (4) two mss. documents confirmed payments to nephew Karl after the composer’s death (Sept. 13-Oct. 9, 1827)
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Contemporary manuscript copy of the Violin Sonata in E flat, Opus 12, no. 3, in parts. 39 p. (piano) and 14 p. (violin), oblong quarto (ca. 21.9 x 29.7 cm), hand-ruled paper of 8, 9, and 20 staves, ownership inscription of Prince Ferdinand Kinsky (”F.K”) to title, later ownership inscription of Princess Elisabeth Kinsky, unbound. Notations in brown ink, the piano part on up to five two-stave systems, the violin part on up to nine single-stave systems, per page.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Gli Uomini di Prometio Ballo per il clavicembalo o piano-forte, Opus 43. First edition of piano score, with price 3 f. 30. Vienna: Artaria, [1801]. In bound collection containing first and early editions of Opus 6 (Simrock), Opus 10 (f.e.), Opus 49 (Bureau d’arts), Opus 31, nos. 1-2, Opus 22 (f.e.), Opus 29, no. 1 (f.e.), Opus 7 (f.e.), Opus 33 (f.e.), and Opus 43, piano arr. (f.e.), with ownership inscription of Prince Ferdinand Kinsky (”Fr. K.” and later ownership inscription “E. Kinsky” (”E.K.”)
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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First edition, variant with price 1 fl. 30 x. Vienna: Bureau d’Arts et d’industrie, 1805. Plate no. 399. In bound collection containing first and early editions of Opus 6 (Simrock), Opus 10 (f.e.), Opus 49 (Bureau d’arts), Opus 31, nos. 1-2, Opus 22 (f.e.), Opus 27, no. 1 (f.e.), Opus 7 (f.e.), Opus 33 (f.e.), and Opus 43, piano arr. (f.e.), with ownership inscription of Prince Ferdinand Kinsky (”Fr. K.” and later ownership inscription “E. Kinsky” (”E.K.”)
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Early edition. Bonn: Simrock, [1802]. Plate no. 225. With ownership inscription of Prince Ferdinand Kinsky (”F.K”) Sold in a lot of 5 items, including the first edition of Opus 11, an early edition of Opus 26 (Simrock), the piano part of the piano trio arr. of Opus 36; and two unidentified works.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Trois Sonates pour le clavecin ou piano forte, Opus 10. First edition. Vienna: Eder, [1798]. In bound collection containing first and early editions of Opus 6 (Simrock), Opus 10 (f.e.), Opus 49 (Bureau d’arts), Opus 31, nos. 1-2, Opus 22 (f.e.), Opus 27, no. 1 (f.e.), Opus 7 (f.e.), Opus 33 (f.e.), and Opus 43, piano arr. (f.e.), with ownership inscription of Prince Ferdinand Kinsky (”Fr. K.” and later ownership inscription “E. Kinsky” (”E.K.”)
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Grande Sonate pour le piano forte, Opus 22. First edition. Vienna: Hoffmeister, [1802]. In bound collection containing first and early editions of Opus 6 (Simrock), Opus 10 (f.e.), Opus 49 (Bureau d’arts), Opus 31, nos. 1-2, Opus 22 (f.e.), Opus 27, no. 1 (f.e.), Opus 7 (f.e.), Opus 33 (f.e.), and Opus 43, piano arr. (f.e.), with ownership inscription of Prince Ferdinand Kinsky (”Fr. K.” and later ownership inscription “E. Kinsky” (”E.K.”)
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Sonata quasi una fantasie, Opus 27, no. 1. First edition. Vienna: Cappi, [1802]. In bound collection containing first and early editions of Opus 6 (Simrock), Opus 10 (f.e.), Opus 49 (Bureau d’arts), Opus 31, nos. 1-2, Opus 22 (f.e.), Opus 27, no. 1 (f.e.), Opus 7 (f.e.), Opus 33 (f.e.), and Opus 43, piano arr. (f.e.), with ownership inscription of Prince Ferdinand Kinsky (”Fr. K.” and later ownership inscription “E. Kinsky” (”E.K.”)
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Grande sonate pour le clavecin ou piano-forte, Opus 7. First edition. Vienna: Artaria, 1797. In bound collection containing first and early editions of Opus 6 (Simrock), Opus 10 (f.e.), Opus 49 (Bureau d’arts), Opus 31, nos. 1-2, Opus 22 (f.e.), Opus 29, no. 1 (f.e.), Opus 7 (f.e.), Opus 33 (f.e.), and Opus 43, piano arr. (f.e.), with ownership inscription of Prince Ferdinand Kinsky (”Fr. K.” and later ownership inscription “E. Kinsky” (”E.K.”)
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Deux sonates pour le piano forte, Opus 31, nos. 1-2. First edition. Zurich: Naiguili, [1803]. In bound collection containing first and early editions of Opus 6 (Simrock), Opus 10 (f.e.), Opus 49 (Bureau d’arts), Opus 31, nos. 1-2, Opus 22 (f.e.), Opus 27, no. 1 (f.e.), Opus 7 (f.e.), Opus 33 (f.e.), and Opus 43, piano arr. (f.e.), with ownership inscription of Prince Ferdinand Kinsky (”Fr. K.” and later ownership inscription “E. Kinsky” (”E.K.”)
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Trois Trios pour le Piano-forte Violon et Violoncelle, Opus 1. First edition, parts, later issue with price “4 f 30” and plate no. 563, lacking subscriber’s list. Vienna: Artaria, [1795]. With ownership inscription of Prince Ferdinand Kinsky (”Fr. K.” and late
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Trois trios pour le piano-forte violon, et violoncelle, Opus 1. Early edition, parts. Vienna: Cappi, [1802]. Later ownership inscription (”E.K.”) Sold with first ed. of Opus 44.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Receipt signed “Ludwig van Beethoven m.p.” in Roman script acknowledging receipt of 600 g. from Prince Kinsky’s treasury [April 1, 1826]. 1 p., folio (ca. 35.5 x 21.5 cm.), numbered “Nro 107” with Beethoven’s red seal, with a second scribal signature, countersigned by the priest C. Santner, neat stamp at head (”2 Gulden W”).
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Receipt signed “Ludwig van Beethoven” in large Roman script acknowledging receipt of 200 g. from Prince Kinsky’s treasury [August 28, 1826]. 1 p., folio (ca. 35.5 x 21.5 cm.), numbered “Nro 236”, with a second scribal signature, countersigned by the priest C. Santner, neat stamp at head (”30 Kreuzer W”), papered seal.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Receipt signed “Ludwig van Beethoven” in large Roman script acknowledging receipt of 240 g. from Prince Kinsky’s treasury [Feb. 25, 1827]. 1 p., folio, numbered “Nro 82”, with Beethoven’s red seal, with a second scribal signature, countersigned by the priest C. Santner, neat stamp at head (”30 Kreuzer W”), papered seal.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Six Bagatelles pour le Piano-Forte, Opus 126. Mainz: B Schott fils, 1825. Plate no. 2281. Price 1f 24 xr.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Sonate pour le forte-piano avec un cor, ou violoncelle, Opus 17. First edition, parts. Vienna: Mollo, [1801]. Plate no. 147 With ownership inscription of Prince Ferdinand Kinsky (”F.K”)
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Trois Sonates pour le pianoforte avec l’accompagnement d’un violon ... No. [1], Opus 30, no. 1. First edition, parts, with price written by hand “1/48.” Contemporary ownership inscription of Prince Ferdinand Kinsky (”Fr. K.”), later ownership inscription (”E.K.”) Sold with first edition, varian
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Trois Sonates pour le pianoforte avec l’accompagnement d’un violon ... No. [2], Opus 30, no. 2. First edition, parts, variant with price 1 fl. 48 Xr. Vienna: Bureaud d’arts, [1803]. Contemporary ownership inscription of Prince Ferdinand Kinsky (”Fr. K.”), later ownership inscription (”E.K.”) So
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Sonate à quatre mains pour le forte-piano, Opus 6. Early edition. Bonn: Simrock [1798]. In bound collection containing first and early editions of Opus 6 (Simrock), Opus 10 (f.e.), Opus 49 (Bureau d’arts), Opus 31, nos. 1-2, Opus 22 (f.e.), Opus 27, no. 1 (f.e.), Opus 7 (f.e.), Opus 33 (f.e.), and Opus 43, piano arr. (f.e.), with ownership inscription of Prince Ferdinand Kinsky (”Fr. K.” and later ownership inscription “E. Kinsky” (”E.K.”)
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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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. Price 1 Thlr. 8 Gr. Watermark “FB & C.”
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Deuxième Grande Sinfonie .. arrangée en trio, Opus 36. First ed. of piano trio arrangement, piano part only. Vienna: Bureau des arts et d’industrie, [1805]. With ownership inscription of Prince Ferdinand Kinsky (”F.K”) Sold in a lot of 5 items, including the first edition of Opus 11, an early edition of Opus 26 (Simrock), the piano part of the piano trio arr. of Opus 36; and two unidentified works.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Grand Trio pour le piano-forte avec un clarinette ou violon, et violoncelle, Opus 11. First edition, parts. Plate no. 106. With ownership inscription of Prince Ferdinand Kinsky (”F.K”) Sold in a lot of 5 items, including the first edition of Opus 11, an early edition of Opus 26 (Simrock), the piano part of the piano trio arr. of Opus 36; and two unidentified works.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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XIV variations pour le fortepiano, violon et violoncelle, Opus 44. First edition, parts, variant with price “1 Reichsthaler” cancelled on plate. Leipzig: Hoffmeister et Kühnel, [1804.]. Later ownership inscription (”E.K.”) Sold with early ed. of Opus 1 (Cappi).
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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XII Variations ... das le Ballet des Waldmächen, WoO 71. First edition. Vienna: Artaria, [1797]. Plate no. 696. Price 45 X.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 05/21/2004
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Autograph letter to S.A. Steiner, [ca. Oct. 22, 1816]. 1 p., 9.5 x 4.25 in.
Auction House: R & R Enterprises Autograph Auctions Date of Sale: 12/17/2003
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Album of George Bridgetower, containing letters, documents and memorabilia mainly from 1797-1825, including letters and documents related to his travels to Dresden and Vienna in 1803. 75 items, quarto and octavo, on guards, in a quarto ablum, bookplate of Arthur F. Hill.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/05/2003
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Autograph composing manuscript of the scherzo from the String Quartet in E-flat Major, Opus 127, the working full score of the complete movement. 17 leaves (31 p.), paginated in pencil (1-30), oblong quarto (ca. 24 x 31 cm.), 12 staves; notated in dark brown ink on three systems per page; a four-bar additional passage written on a separate unpa
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/05/2003
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Ouverture et Entr’actes d’Egmont, Opus 84. First edition of the score. Leipzig: Breikopt & Härtel, 1831. Plate no. 5140. Sold with first ed. of Opus 68, score.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/05/2003
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Engraver’s copy of the String Quartet, Opus 131, in hand of Wenzel Rampl, with Beethoven’s autograph title page and corrections throughout. Full score in two scribal hands in brown ink with Beethoven’s alterations throughout in brown and black ink and silverpoint, 14 staves (20 staves for last movement), with a complete set of the original mss. choral, vocal, and trombone parts also marked by Beethoven, 575 p. in all: score in 3 v., 465 p., oblong quarto (23.5 x 30 cm.) and oblong folio (27 x 40 cm.), 12-, 14-, 16-, and 20-staves, contemporary mottled blue boards, manuscript labels); parts in folder of disbound folio leaves (26 x 26 cm.), 110 p. total.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/05/2003
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Messa a quattro voci coll’ accompagto. dell’orchestra, Opus 86. Full score. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1812. Plate no. 1667. “Anmerkung” on verso of p. 107.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/05/2003
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Meeres Stille und glückliche Fahrt, Opus 112. Full score, first edition. Vienna: Steiner, 1822. Plate no. S.u.C. 3838.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/05/2003
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First edition of the parts. Leipzig: Breitkopt & Härtel, 1802. Plate no. 94. Sold with variant first edition of Opus 47 parts (Simrock).
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/05/2003
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Full score, first edition. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1826. Sold with first edition of Opus 84, score.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/05/2003
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Mainz: B Schott fils, 1825. Plate no. 2281 Price 1f 24 xr.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/05/2003
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Sonate per il piano-forte ed un violino obligato, Opus 47. Parts, later issue of the first edition. Bonn: Simrock, after 1805. Offered with Opus 29, first ed. parts.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/05/2003
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Deux sonates pour le piano et violoncell, Opus 102, no. 1. Liv. I only. Bonn & Cologne: Simrock, [1817]. Plate no. 1337.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/05/2003
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Quatuor pour deux violons, alto et violoncelle, Opus 127. First edition, second issue of the parts. Mainz; Schott, ca. 1826. Offered in lot with first and early editions of the parts for Opus 95 (Haslinger, ca. 1830), Opus 127 (Schott, ca. 1826), Opus 130 (Artaria, 1827), Opus 131 (Artaria, 1827), and Opus 132 (1827).
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/05/2003
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Grand quatuor en ut dièze mineur ..., Opus 131. First edition of the parts. Mainz, Paris, Antwerp: B. Schotts Söhne, 1827. Offered in lot with first and early editions of the parts for Opus 95 (Haslinger, ca. 1830), Opus 127 (Schott, ca. 1826), Opus 130 (Artaria, 1827), Opus 131 (Artaria, 1827), and Opus 132 (1827).
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/05/2003
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Quatuor ... oeuv. 132. First edition, parts. Vienna: Artaria, 1827. Offered in lot with first and early editions of the parts for Opus 95 (Haslinger, ca. 1830), Opus 127 (Schott, ca. 1826), Opus 130 (Artaria, 1827), Opus
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/05/2003
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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. Price 1 Thlr. 8 Gr.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/05/2003
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Eilftes Quartett für zwey Violinen, Bratsche und Violoncelle, Opus 95. Early edition of the parts. Vienna: T. Haslinger, ca. 1830s. Offered in lot with first and early editions of the parts for Opus 95 (Haslinger, ca. 1830), Opus 127 (Schott, ca. 1826), Opus 130 (Artaria, 1827), Opus 131 (Artaria, 1827), and Opus 132 (1827).
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/05/2003
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Early edition. Bonn: Simrock, 1798. Plate no. 75. Sold with the first edition, second issue of WoO 73
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/05/2003
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First edition, parts. Vienna: Artaria, 1827. Offered in lot with first and early editions of the parts for Opus 95 (Haslinger, ca. 1830), Opus 127 (Schott, ca. 1826), Opus 130 (Artaria, 1827), Opus
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/05/2003
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XII Variations ... das le Ballet des Waldmächen, WoO 71. First edition. Vienna: Artaria, [1797]. Plate no. 696. Price 45 X.
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/05/2003
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X Variations pour le clavecin ou piano-forte sur le due La stesse, la stessissima del’opera Falstaff, WoO 73. First edition, second issue. Vienna: Artaria, [1799]. Plate no. 807. Price f. 1. Sold with Opus 2, Simrock ed. (1798).
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/05/2003
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First English edition of arr. for solo piano. London: Birchall, [1816].
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/05/2003
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Messa a quattro voci coll’ accompagto. dell’orchestra, Opus 86. Full score. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1812. Plate no. 1667. “Anmerkung” on verso of p. 107.
Auction House: Christie's (London) Date of Sale: 12/03/2003
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Ouverture et Entr’actes d’Egmont, Opus 84. First edition of the score. Leipzig: Breikopt & Härtel, 1831. Plate no. 5140. Ownership signature of Walter Bache, Leipzig, 1859.
Auction House: Christie's (London) Date of Sale: 12/03/2003
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