IV. Publications of Sketchbooks
(F = facsimile; Tr = transcription; P = pocket)
Currently there are two series of publications of sketchbooks:
1) Bonn, Beethoven-Haus, Beethoven, Skizzen und Entwürfe, begun 1972 with MS Grasnick 2 (mainly Op. 18 sketches); a few later publications, of which the most recent is that of MS Artaria 197, ed. W. Drabkin (2010) [see below]
2) Beethoven Sketchbook Series, William Kinderman, General Editor Urbana: Illinois University Press, 2003–
3) Grasnick 5: Beethoven’s Pocket Sketchbook for the Agnus Dei of the Missa Solemnis, Opus 123, ed. by Patrizia Metzler and Fred Stoltzfus (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016).
To date this series has published two sketchbooks, as follows:
a) Artaria 195: Beethoven’s Sketchbook for the Missa Solemnis and the Pianosonata in E Major, Opus 109, 3 vols., ed. by William Kinderman [mainly sketches for the Missa Solemnis and the piano sonata Op. 109] (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003)
b) Beethoven’s “Eroica” Sketchbook: A Critical Edition, 2 vols., ed. Lewis Lockwood and Alan Gosman (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013).
Berlin MS Landsberg 6, housed since 1945 in Kraków. Beethoven’s main sketchbook for the period from late 1802 to early 1804, including the vast body of sketches for the “Eroica” Symphony and the “Waldstein” piano sonata; plus sketches for his early attempt at an opera on Vestas feuer, the first five numbers of his opera Leonore (later Fidelio) and many other works of this significant period in his artistic development. Among other items it contains his first sketches for the Fifth Symphony, ideas that developed into the Sixth Symphony, and the Fourth Piano Concerto, plus concept sketches for other works that remained unfinished. Excerpts from this sketchbook have been known since Nottebohm’s monograph of 1880 (see below, V), which has been the basis for most commentaries on “Eroica” and “Waldstein” sketches ever since. But our new edition provides the entire sketchbook in complete facsimile and transcription for the first time, along with an extensive commentary.
Sketchbooks: published or in preparation (for the latter this list needs additions)
| “Kafka” Miscellany | (early leaves) | Publ. 1970 | Kerman | (F, Tr) | |
| “Fischhof’ Misc. | (1790’s) | 1980 | Transcribed by D. Johnson in diss., | (Tr) | |
| Grasnick 1 | (1798-99) | Publ. 1972 | Not yet published but tr by C. Brenneis | (F, Tr) | |
| Grasnick 2 | (1799 | Virneisel | |||
| Aut. 19E, ff. 12-31 | (1800) | Publ. 1996 | Kramer | (F, Tr) | |
| Landsberg 7 | (1801) | Publ. 1927 | Mikulicz | (Tr) | |
| Kessler | (Late 1801-mid 1802) | Publ. 1978 | Brandenburg | (F, Tr) | |
| Wielhorsky | (Fall 1802-early 1803) | Publ. 1962 | Fishman | (F, Tr) | |
| Landsberg 6 | (late 1802-early 1804) | Publ. 2013 | Lockwood and Gosman | (F, Tr) | |
| “Pastoral Symphony Sketchbook” | (1808) | Publ. (London MS portion only), 1961 | Weise | (Tr); new edition in preparation by N. Marston | |
| Grasnick 3 | (1808-09) | Publ. 1957 | Weise | (Tr) | |
| Landsberg 5 | (1809) | Publ. 1993 | Brenneis | (F, Tr) | |
| Landsberg 11 | (1809-10) | In preparation by Seow-Chin Ong | |||
| Petter | (1812) | In preparation by John Knowles | (F, Tr) | ||
| Scheide | (1815) | In preparation by Federica Rovelli | (F, Tr) | ||
| Wittgenstein | (1819-20) | Publ. Tr 1972; F 1968 | Schmidt-Görg | (F, Tr) | |
| Artaria 195 | (1820-21) | Publ. 2003 | Kinderman | (F, Tr) | |
| Grasnick 5 (P) | (1820-21) | Publ. 2016 | Metzler and Stolftzfus | (F, Tr) | |
| Artaria 197 | (1821) | Publ. 2010 | Drabkin | (F, Tr) | |
| Engelmann | (1823) | Publ. 1913 | (F) | ||
| Bonn BH 107 (P) | (1819-20) | Publ. Tr 1952; F 1968 | Schmidt-Görg | (F, Tr) | |
| Bonn BH 108 (P) | (1820) | Publ. Tr 1970; F 1968 | Schmidt-Görg | (F, Tr) | |
| Bonn BH 109 (P) | (1820) | Publ. Tr 1970; F 1968 | Schmidt-Görg | (F, Tr) | |
| Moscow (P) | (1823) | Publ. 1995 | Vyaskova | (F, Tr) |