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Beethoven at Auction Search Help
Auction house
Enter the name of the auction house (e.g. Sotheby's, Stargardt, or Christie's). Many of the smaller auction houses are also represented.
Catalog concordance
Most Beethoven letters have been published in the following collections. To retrieve information on specific letters, enter the corresponding letter number from either of these collections, as shown:
The Letters of Beethoven, compiled and translated by Emily Anderson (London: Macmillan, 1961).
Enter as Anderson L[no.] (e.g. Anderson L1497)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Briefwechsel Gesamtausgabe, edited by Sieghard Brandenburg (Munich: G. Henle, 1996-1998).
Enter as BG [no.] (e.g. BG 244)
Some of Beethoven's individual sketch pages and sketch books are cataloging in the "Verzeichnis der Skizzen Beethovens" compiled by Hans Schmidt (Beethoven-Jahrbuch v. 6 (1969), p. 7-128). To search under these catalog numbers, use the abbreviation SV [no.] (e.g. SV 337).
Date of sale
To retrieve a list of items sold on a particular date or within a range of dates, enter the dates using one of the following formats:
Exact date: mm/dd/yy (e.g. 05/14/96)
Specific month: mm/yy (e.g. 05/00 for May 2000)
Range of dates: mm/dd/yy-mm/dd/yy (e.g. 07/01/05-12/31/05 for July-December 2005)
Material types
Enter one of the following terms to retrieve lists of materials of a particular type.
Materials related to Beethoven's biography: Autograph note; Conversation leaf; Document; Hair; Household account leaf; Household object; Letter about Beethoven; Letter from Beethoven; Letter to Beethoven; Receipt
Materials related to Beethoven's works or musical studies: Autograph copy of other composers' music; Autograph facsimile; Autograph ms.; Contrapuntal studies; Copyists' ms.; Corrected copy; Early edition; First edition; Sketchleaf
Other materials: Art object; Forgery; Rare book; Other.
Title keyword
Enter names, dates, and other keywords. Titles are entered from the information given in the auction catalogs and are not always consistent.
Treasure tracking
The purpose of this index is to keep track of manuscripts and other unique materials sold at recent auctions whose current location is unknown. Search options include: Manuscript; Object; Other.
Sale amount
Enter an exact amount or range. For example, a search on "2000-10000"
will retrieve records for items sold for between $2,000-10,000 in U.S.
currency.
Work
Beethoven's works are indexed by the Opus or WoO (Work without opus) numbers as listed in the standard thematic catalog, Das Werk Beethovens, compiled by George Kinsky and Hans Halm, and many other reference sources. For example, to find materials related to the Eroica Symphony, enter "Opus 55."
Please note that lists will displayed in reverse chronological order by date of sale. Sorting of records by other criteria is not possible.
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