Kunitachi College of Music Library
A Catalogue of Early Printed Editions
of the Works of L.v.Beethoven
S11-880 (M2-251)
Op.39
Deux Preludes / par tous les XII. Tons majeurs / Pour le Forte-Piano, ou l'Orgue / Composés par / Louis van Beethoven. / Oeuvre XXXIX. / [l.:] 1079. [r.:] 30 X.
Physical descriptions: 22.5 x 34(21.5 x 29); title page(14.5 x 21)
Collation: [Piano or organ]: Title, Music(2-7), blank.
Plate number: 1079
Printing method: engraved
Other descriptions: Preceding 1st music line: I
Note: Lacking imprint from the title page; published by G. Cappi in Vienna(supplied f. Kinsky-Halm)
Plate number on the title page is barely legible
Price indication on the title page is corrected from 30 to [4]0 in ink.
Laid paper watermarked: Coat of arms with 1 star, crown & crescent
Dif. f. the Hoboken catalogue: watermark
Imprint: [Wien: G. Cappi, not before 1806]
Edition and history: Re-issue, with new price indication, of the G. Cappi edition of 1804
Comments: Publication date from the watermark: Watermarks are the same as those of Peter August Matthes who started manufacturing business from 1806
References: Kinsky-Halm: p. 96
Hoboken: No. 205
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