The Beethoven Sketchbooks: History, Reconstruction, Inventory
- ISBN-10
- 0520048350
- ISBN-13
- 9780520048355
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 611
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1985-01-01
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Authors
- Alan Tyson, Robert Winter, Douglas Porter Johnson
Description
A comprehensive description of Beethoven's sketchbooks--bound books of music paper in which Beethoven made sketches for his compositions from about 1798--has been long felt by Beethoven scholars. Although almost all the sketchbooks have survived in one form or another, it became clear in the 1960s that they were in a state of disarray. A reconstruction of their original condition was essential to the proper study of their musical contents.
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