a wonderful Adagio sketch from 1825

[gprengel]

I am just reading a very interesting book - "Beethoven and the creative process" by Barry Cooper. In this I discovered a so far to me unknown sketch probably for a string quartett Adagio, for it is among the sketches for the cavatine from op. 130. It is very beautiful and the beginning reminds of the Andante from the 3rd mov. from the Ninth. Here is first the original one vioce sketch and then repeated again with an additional bass line from me:

http://www.gerdprengel.de/Beeth_quar...825_Adagio.mp3

Always something new to discover ...

Gerd

[Michael]

Beautiful! There are so many of these unused sketches scattered around the world in various sketch-books in different museums.
Only relatively recently have facsimile editions become available to Beethoven scholars but there is still a long way to go.