Beschreibung:

Ludwig van Beethoven
Collection of ten first and early editions of his keyboard music
including:
Grande Sonate pathétique...op.13, Bonn: Simrock, [1800], 17 pages, plate number 111 
Grande Sonate pour le Clavecin, ou FortePiano...Oeuvre XXVI, Leipzig: Bureau de Musique, [c.1802], 18 pages, plate numbers 118 and 118-119
Sonate. Pour le Piano forte...Oeuvre 31, libre. I, Berlin: Trautwein, [c.1823], 19 pages, plate number 1320
Trois Sonates pour le Piano-forte...Oeuvre ['31': in manuscript] Liv. ['3': in manuscript]. Bonn: N. Simrock, [1807?], pp.[45]-65, plate number 345
Les Adieux, l'Absence et le Retour. Sonate Pour le Pianoforte...Oeuv. 81 [op.81a], Leipzig: Breitkopf, [1821], 17 pages, plate number 3686
Deux Preludes par tous les 12 Tons majeurs...Oeuvre 39, Leipzig: Hoffmeister et Kühnel, [1803], FIRST EDITION, 7 pages, plate number 271, ownership inscription to title ("Ernst Rudorff...Lichtenstein's Nachlass...")
Dodici Variazioni per il Piano-Forte Sul Menuetto detto à la Vigano...N.o 3 [WoO 68], Leipzig: A. Kühnel, [1810], 12 pages, 791
VIII Variations sur le Thême (une Fièvre brulante) pour le Piano-Forte [WoO 72], Leipzig: A. Kühnel, [1807], 9 pages, plate number 577
10 works in one, oblong 4to (23.6 x 33cm), all works engraved, save the lithographed op.81a, some pencil annotations, manuscript label in the hand of Ernst Rudorff to upper cover ("Beethoven Sonaten für Pianoforte..."), nineteenth-century half cloth, repairs to some leaves of op.26, trimmed by the binder
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