Record ID
114204
Accession number
Cary 550
Creator
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
Biographical Data
German composer.
Object title
Sketches for the slow movement of Beethoven's Piano sonata no. 29 in B♭ major, op. 106 : autograph manuscript, 1818?
Uniform title
Sonatas, piano, no. 29, op. 106, B♭ major. Adagio sostenuto (Sketches)
Date
1818?
Credit line
Purchased on the Cary Fund, with the special assistance of Mrs. Robert Horne Charles, Mrs. McCauley Conner, Laurence D. Lovett, and Frank E. Taplin.
Provenance
Nanette Streicher; Vincent Novello. Reproduced in Nicholas Marston, "Approaching the Sketches for Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Sonata," Journal of the American Musicological Society 44 (1991), 424-25.
Notes
Sketches for the slow movement and, possibly, an early version of the Finale of the Hammerklavier Sonata. The bottom portion of this leaf is in an album that belonged to Vincent Novello, now in a private British collection. This is the upper portion, with a strip of one original margin remaining. In the margin: "The hand writing of Beethoven. Given to me at Vienna, July 27. 1829 by Mrs. Streiker, one of Mozart and Beethovens Pupils, as well as one of Beethoven's oldest and most sincere friends."
Associated names
Streicher, Nannette, 1769-1833, former owner.
Novello, Vincent, 1781-1861, former owner.
Novello, Vincent, 1781-1861, former owner.
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