Biamonti 95 – Unused Piano Sketches, 1795.

These sketches are found on a single sheet held in the library of the Paris Conservatoire (M.U., pages 110 and 87).

They belong to Manuscript 87 of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Gallica section; the sketches occupy the entire front page of the sheet, while the reverse side has either remained unused or, more accurately, contains some faint pencil scribbles that are difficult to decipher.

Below is the description found in the Gallica section:

Au recto: deux fragments de 53 et 5 mesures en si bémol majeur à 4/4, sur deux portées dont seule la première est utilisée (main droite du piano ou violon?), probablement pour le premier mouvement d’une sonate ou oeuvre similaire; deux fragments de 16 et 4 mesures, sur deux portées, peut-être…

Johnson, Tyson and Winter, in their book on Beethoven’s sketch material, place this sheet—at least based on the type of paper used—among those of Viennese origin dating from around 1792–1793. It is closely related to the Kafka collection (46, 47, 51, 52, 53, 54, 89, 80, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 139), the Fischhof papers (3, 4, 5, 6, 22, 23, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56), as well as others held at the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn (BH 102, BH 114), among still others.