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Auf dunkeln Irrweg / [Ludwig van Beethoven]: MU.MS.287

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Auf dunkeln Irrweg / [Ludwig van Beethoven]
König Stephan. Auf dunkeln Irrweg (Sketches)

Maker(s)

Beethoven, Ludwig van
Bookbinder: Cockerell Bindery

Categories

Description

Sketches for the chorus from König Stephan, op. 117, no. 2.
Holograph manuscript in ink.
Paper: 16 staves (190x250mm); watermark: "FV"
From the dismembered Sketchbook of 1810-1811. See 'The Beethoven sketchbooks : history, reconstruction, inventory / Douglas Johnson, Alan Tyson & Robert Winter ; edited by Douglas Johnson' (Berkeley, 1985), pp. 201-206.
Former shelf mark: Music Box I no. 37.
Sketch lacks clefs and key and time signatures.
1.1.1 b Auf dunkeln Irrweg c F-4 bBEA c 4-,GCD/E8DD4CD/ECD8EE/4FEDC/
Incidental music. Musical sketches.
Received unbound. Conserved and bound in brown morocco with marbled paper sides, vellum tips, by the Cockerell Bindery, November 1981.

Measurements and weight

1 ms. score (1 leaf) ;23 x 31 cm.

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Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given by Henderson, James Stewart

Dating

Production date: ca. AD 1811 : [WIen],[1811?]

Identification numbers

Accession number: MU.MS.287
Primary reference Number: 253487
ALMA control 001: 994814973803606

Audit data

Created: Monday 12 October 2020 Updated: Monday 1 February 2021

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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