Your Beethoven Collection

[AeolianHarp]

Of course we all have some ( or all) of his music on our computers, CDs, cassettes, LPs or like myself even gramophone 78s...

We have books also.....but what else have you got in your collection?

I thought we could have a thread to share any interesting Beethoven items we have got ( and any we get along the way).


These arrived from Ebay this morning! Vintage postcards from Beethovenhaus in Bonn! I paid £5 for them.

[AeolianHarp]

These three are my favourites!

[Harvey]

Nice, love that staircase!

[AeolianHarp]

Nice, love that staircase!

And to think he must have walked up that as a small boy...

[Rocco]

Well you all know mine already...

[AeolianHarp]

I would have had a paperweight also but someone outbid me at the last moment- I might have won if I had not been in the kitchen at the time- bah!

[Armando Orlandi]

The English guide of the Museum from 1965 describing the Entrance Hall of the Beethoven-Haus writes: “On entering the large hall with its old-fashioned timbered ceiling and picturesque staircase one obtains the impression of a typical well-kept middle-class house of those days and hardly of an aristocratic one, like Goethe’s house-of-birth, for instance. One the right one’s glance falls upon an old clock and above the staircase on a picture of the Blessed Virgin Mary…”.
Unfortunately this clock is not working anymore and has been completely disassembled. Only its wonderful wooden case survives at the third floor of the Museum, with other collection items.

April 26 (the day after our concert on the Beethoven's piano) I'm going to see if I can put the Beethovenhaus this clock running and possibly put it back in its seat.

[AeolianHarp]

The English guide of the Museum from 1965 describing the Entrance Hall of the Beethoven-Haus writes: “On entering the large hall with its old-fashioned timbered ceiling and picturesque staircase one obtains the impression of a typical well-kept middle-class house of those days and hardly of an aristocratic one, like Goethe’s house-of-birth, for instance. One the right one’s glance falls upon an old clock and above the staircase on a picture of the Blessed Virgin Mary…”.
Unfortunately this clock is not working anymore and has been completely disassembled. Only its wonderful wooden case survives at the third floor of the Museum, with other collection items.

Oh how sad about the clock. I love antique clocks- their ticking, chiming and magical beauty. I have been twice to a clock museum in my county- big eigtheenth century ones! Sad though, that we hardly ever see them wound up in museums.

April 26 (the day after our concert on the Beethoven's piano) I'm going to see if I can put the Beethovenhaus this clock running and possibly put it back in its seat.

Which clock?!

[Peter]

Aside from the books, cds etc you mention I suppose it's going to be hard to have much in our collections - I have no locket of hair!! I like your postcards. I have kept my tickets and guide from my 1980 visit to the Beethovenhaus, also I have the the same for the 2003 recreation in Vienna of the famous Dec 1808 concert.

[AeolianHarp]

Aside from the books, cds etc you mention I suppose it's going to be hard to have much in our collections - I have no locket of hair!!

Who does?! The Maestro's locks of hair are all in museums. I hope I get to see a lock of his glorious hair one day- photos are not the same.
There are other things we could have like postcards, souvenirs, busts.....

I like your postcards.

I really really treasure them.

I have kept my tickets and guide from my 1980 visit to the Beethovenhaus, also I have the the same for the 2003 recreation in Vienna of the famous Dec 1808 concert.

Sweet!

[AeolianHarp]

This arrived from eBay yesterday:

[AeolianHarp]

And just won my bid for a 1964/5 Fidelio opera programme! £1.95 ( incuding postage).

This is a programme for the production of Fidelio by Sadler’s Wells Opera.The programme identifies that Beethoven’s Fidelio is an opera in two acts libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner. Including the outside cover the programme consists of 16 pages, one of which is a fold out.

[Harvey]

You are gaining quite a nice Beethoven collection. I especially like the Fidelio program. Here is something very interesting although available in pdf format, it is the entire libretto from an 1851 performance. You can view it at the site or save it to your computer.

[AeolianHarp]

You are gaining quite a nice Beethoven collection. I especially like the Fidelio program. Here is something very interesting although available in pdf format, it is the entire libretto from an 1851 performance. You can view it at the site or save it to your computer.

I am! I like the programme too- will cherish that. I must get a nice album to put the postcards in.

Thanks for the link.

[Harvey]

You inspired me to bid on a Fidelio program. Just got it on Ebay for $4.50 USD shipped!
Bavarian State Opera 1945-46 Prinzregenten Theatre Fidelio Beethoven Program. Two programs, one in English, other German. The English version was licensed through the Military Government Information Control dated 1945-46 and gives a synopsis of the story. The German version is dated Munich, November 15, 1945. The only difference between the two is: two characters, the minister and one prisoner is played by different individuals. Excellent condition.