Biamonti 99 – P.34. According to Prod’homme, a Liepmannssohn autograph catalogue of 21-22 May 1909 listed some pages containing a draft of the song “Die Liebe” Opus 52 number 6 and other unfinished pieces: an Adagio for piano, followed by an Allegro, with this annotation: “the difficult thing is to smooth all this passage of the fingers, but it must make the effect as if it were played with a bow”; a Rondo in E flat; a sonata in the same tone; an Allegretto “don’t le sentiment rappelle la Sonate au clair de lune”.

It is in the Beethoven-Haus on the fourth page of the manuscript catalogued as Sammlung Wegeler 3. Biamonti, in his catalogue of Beethoven’s fragments, does not indicate which Allegretto this is; in these 2 folios there are in fact 2 Allegretti in the key of A major: the first in time cut at staves 7-8; the second in 2/4 at the end of staves 7-8 / 9-10 / 11-12.

Beethoven in fact used this bifolio in its entirety, leaving pieces of staves free (probably so that he could finish the idea he had just left later).

We present here both 2 Allegretti!