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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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4 p., octavo, dated Berlin, 4 March 1844
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 12/04/2007
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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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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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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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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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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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1 leaf (3 p.), quarto, with lacquer seal and address.
Auction House: Stargardt (Berlin) Date of Sale: 06/26/2007
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2006
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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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Vienna: Artaria, [ca. 1806] In lot containing 4 early editions and an edition of Steibelt’s Opus 90.s.
Auction House: Sotheby's Date of Sale: 11/30/2006
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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 Date of Sale: 11/30/2006
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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 an
Auction House: Sotheby's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2006
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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 Date of Sale: 11/30/2006
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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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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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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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3 p., quarto
Auction House: Stargardt Date of Sale: 11/21/2006
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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2 p., octavo, framed and glazed, with a translation.
Auction House: Christie's (London) Date of Sale: 11/30/2005
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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8 p, large quarto
Auction House: Stargardt Date of Sale: 06/28/2005
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3 p, large quarto
Auction House: Stargardt Date of Sale: 06/28/2005
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1 p, quarto, signed “Beethoven”
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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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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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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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. Zurich: Naiguili, [1803].
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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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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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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2 1/2 p.
Auction House: Stargardt (Berlin) Date of Sale: 11/23/2004
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1 p.
Auction House: Stargardt (Berlin) Date of Sale: 11/23/2004
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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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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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