The Sketches of the Ninth

Sketching B. to Archduke Rudolph, 1823

“at the piano you should jot down your ideas in the form of sketches. For this purpose you should have a small table beside the piano… You should also compose without a piano… This will certainly not give Your Highness a headache; nay, rather, it will afford you real enjoyment when you thus find yourself in the very swim of artistic production.”

Louis Walker (with sketchbook)

The Sketchbooks B. used and kept sketchbooks (“desk”) since

1798, “pocket” used since 1815 B. died 26 March 1827, non-musical belongings

auctioned 5 May, musical Nachlass auctioned 5 Nov.

Artaria was mainly responsible for the cataloguing and appraisal, and bought 60% of the material (!).

In between, uncountable items were “took away” (esp. Schindler!).

Musical Nachlass Auction 5 Nov. 1827

material in great disarray

under legal quarantine until Aug. 16

apartment must be vacated before Sept. 29

no published catalogue, just one advertisment

local affair, low price (insider trade!)

Artaria Art and Music shop

in Vienna founded 1765 in

Mainz, Vienna 1770–1932

Domenico A. led 1793–1833

A Typical Music Shop in Vienna

Artaria printed Haydn since 1780 Mozart since 1781 Beethoven since 1793 acquired over 60% of B.

musical Nachlass (to be resold later)

Gustav Nottebohm (1817–82) studied at the Leipzig

Conservatory under Mendelssohn, Schumann and Hauptmann, and in Vienna under Sechter

1858 Board member of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde

befriended Brahms Pioneer of the Beethoven

Sketch Research

Problems: Boldrini (now lost)

undiplomatic:whose “u.s.w.”?

Artaria 201, p. 111 finale: well fugued?

Humperdinck: Hänsel und GretelTransition from act 1 to act 2 (deceptive cadence)

Freude schöne Götterfunken Tochter aus Elysium=de 100 . recht fugirt Die Sinfonie aus 4 Stücken darin das 2te Stück im 2/4 Takt wie in d... die... könnte in 6/8tel dur sein u. das 4te Stück Vi=100

Literature

Nottebohm: Two Beethoven Sketchbooks: A Description with Musical Extracts (Leipzig, 1865, 1880; London 1979).

D. Johnson, A. Tyson and R. Winter: The Beethoven Sketchbooks: History, Reconstruction, Inventory (Oxford 1985).