1816 · Wien
by BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van 1770-1827
Wien: S. A. Steiner und Comp. [PN S. et C. 2581], 1816. Folio. In custom-made quarter dark blue morocco clamshell box with matching dark blue cloth boards, raised bands on spine with titling gilt.
Piano: 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [1] (blank), 2-21, [i] (blank) pp.
Violin: [1] (blank), 2-11, [i] (blank) pp.
Engraved.
With decorative title engraved by A. Müller incorporating an image of the double-headed eagle of the Austrian empire.
Slightly worn and soiled; edges dusty; light uniform browning; some show-through; title to piano part partially detached with minor loss to head and tail of spine; small binder's holes to center of blank inner margin; spine and several small tears repaired with archival tape; one leaf with minor loss to blank lower margin.
A wide-margined copy, with untrimmed edges. First Edition, first issue, of the Violin Sonata No. 10 in G, composed in 1812. New Kinsky p. 619. Hirsch IV, 356. Hoboken 2, 411.
“The Violin Sonata, op. 96, the tenth and last of Beethoven’s sonatas for piano and violin, was sketched and composed in 1812, following the Seventh and Eighth Symphonies, to which it contrasts as a delicate pen-and-ink drawing to a set of major frescos… Where the piano and violin duo had been a vehicle for the inauguration of Beethoven’s ‘new path’ in the stormy Kreutzer Sonata of a decade earlier, the G-major Sonata abandons the ‘stilo brillante molto concertante’ of opus 47 in favor of a heartfelt and exquisite communicativeness, thus providing a quietly imaginative coda to the middle period. As one annotator wrote: ‘Instead of urgent dramatic expostulation, here the mood is one of gentle lyricism, with but glimpses of the profound depths of experience and conquest of pain that had made possible the achievement of this serenity.” Finkelstein, Sidney: Notes to the Szigeti-Arrau recording, Vanguard VRS 1109/12). Solomon: Beethoven, p. 214. (Inventory #: 40506)
Piano: 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [1] (blank), 2-21, [i] (blank) pp.
Violin: [1] (blank), 2-11, [i] (blank) pp.
Engraved.
With decorative title engraved by A. Müller incorporating an image of the double-headed eagle of the Austrian empire.
Slightly worn and soiled; edges dusty; light uniform browning; some show-through; title to piano part partially detached with minor loss to head and tail of spine; small binder's holes to center of blank inner margin; spine and several small tears repaired with archival tape; one leaf with minor loss to blank lower margin.
A wide-margined copy, with untrimmed edges. First Edition, first issue, of the Violin Sonata No. 10 in G, composed in 1812. New Kinsky p. 619. Hirsch IV, 356. Hoboken 2, 411.
“The Violin Sonata, op. 96, the tenth and last of Beethoven’s sonatas for piano and violin, was sketched and composed in 1812, following the Seventh and Eighth Symphonies, to which it contrasts as a delicate pen-and-ink drawing to a set of major frescos… Where the piano and violin duo had been a vehicle for the inauguration of Beethoven’s ‘new path’ in the stormy Kreutzer Sonata of a decade earlier, the G-major Sonata abandons the ‘stilo brillante molto concertante’ of opus 47 in favor of a heartfelt and exquisite communicativeness, thus providing a quietly imaginative coda to the middle period. As one annotator wrote: ‘Instead of urgent dramatic expostulation, here the mood is one of gentle lyricism, with but glimpses of the profound depths of experience and conquest of pain that had made possible the achievement of this serenity.” Finkelstein, Sidney: Notes to the Szigeti-Arrau recording, Vanguard VRS 1109/12). Solomon: Beethoven, p. 214. (Inventory #: 40506)
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