Music by Other Composers

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Description: Printed music of works by composers other than Beethoven from the Beethoven Center's collection, including editions of music in Beethoven's own library, works by his contemporaries, and works by later composers influenced by Beethoven.

Title: Album Beethoven
Description: An album published in 1841 in Vienna by P. Mechetti containing piano works by eleven composers. The album was sold in Germany to raise funds for the new Beethoven monument erected in Bonn in 1845. This publisher's presentation copy contains a frontispiece illustration of a monument by J.N. Geiger and drawings of Beethoven's birthplace, the Schwarzspanierhaus where he died in Vienna in 1827, and a drawing of his tombstone. In addition to the piano transcription by Franz Liszt of Beethoven's...
Show moreAn album published in 1841 in Vienna by P. Mechetti containing piano works by eleven composers. The album was sold in Germany to raise funds for the new Beethoven monument erected in Bonn in 1845. This publisher's presentation copy contains a frontispiece illustration of a monument by J.N. Geiger and drawings of Beethoven's birthplace, the Schwarzspanierhaus where he died in Vienna in 1827, and a drawing of his tombstone. In addition to the piano transcription by Franz Liszt of Beethoven's Funeral March from the Eroica Symphony, and the first edition of Mendelssohn's Variations Serieuses, the album contains works by Chopin, Czerny, Doehler, Henselt, Kalbrenner, Moscheles, Taubert, and Thalberg.
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Date: 1841

Title: Dedié à Spontini : directeur général de la musique et premier maître de chapelle de S.M. le Roi de Prusse etc. etc. par Bettine Arnim
Creator: Brentano, Bettina, 1785-1859 (composer)
Description: Collection of seven songs, including two duets, by Bettina von Arnim
Date: ca. 1842

Title: Six sonates pour le clavecin ou piano forte
Creator: Bach, Johann Christian, 1735-1782 (composer)
Description: Early edition of J.C. Bach's Six sonata for keyboard instrument, op. 17 (W. A7-12), with inscription in the hand of Anton Schindler written in ink on t.p.: -von Beethoven erhalten / A. Schindler ; Contains six markings in pencil in the hand of Ludwig van Beethoven
Date: 1781