Concerto pour le violon avec accompagnement de deux violons, alto, flûte, deux hautbois, deux clarinettes, cors, bassons, trompettes, timballes, violoncelles et basse / composé ... par Louis van Beethoven.

Record ID: 
121317
Creator: 
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
Title: 
Concerto pour le violon avec accompagnement de deux violons, alto, flûte, deux hautbois, deux clarinettes, cors, bassons, trompettes, timballes, violoncelles et basse / composé ... par Louis van Beethoven.
Uniform title: 
Concertos, violin, orchestra, op. 61, D major
Published: 
À Vienne & Pesth : Au Bureau des arts et d'industrie, [1808]
Notes: 

"Dédié à son ami, Monsieur de Breuning, sécrétaire aulique au service de Sa Majesté l'Empéreur d'Autriche."
Parts (complete): Violino principale, Violino primo, Violino secondo, Viola, Violoncelli, Bassi, Flauto, Oboe primo, Oboe secondo, Clarinetto primo in A, Clarinetto secondo in A, Fagotto primo, Fagotto secondo, Corno primo in D, Corno secondo in D, Clarino primo in D, Clarino secondo in D, Timpani in D: A:.
First ed.; engraved.
Archduke Rudoplh's librarian, Joseph Anton Ignaz von Baumeister, has written "Beeth. 102" in pencil on the Violino primo, woodwind, brass, and timpani parts. In the archduke's collection these parts were kept with Beethoven's arrangement of the concerto for piano and orchestra; they are, however, apparently identical to those for the violin concerto. In the Musikalien-Register of Rudolph's collection (Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, 1268/33), the Beethoven entry numbered 102 is for the piano and orchestra version; the version for violin and orchestra is numbered 181. Cf. Sieghard Brandenburg, "Die Beethoveniana in der Musikaliensammlung des Erzherzogs Rudolph", Spielungen 12 (1986), 221-249.

Provenance: 

From the collections of Archduke Rudolph of Austria, the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (Vienna), and Louis Krasner.

Associated names: 

Rudolph, Archduke of Austria, 1788-1831, former owner.
Krasner, Louis, 1903-1995 former owner.

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