Biamonti 318 – Sonata Seconda (Sketch), pages 186–190, Spring 1802
The musical examples and texts on this page are by Graziano Denini
Biamonti 318 – Sonata Seconda (Sketch), pages 186–190, Spring 1802
Two sections (Nottebohm, Skizzen I, pages 35–36), respectively of 19 and 12 measures, found among the sketches for the first movement of the Piano Sonata Opus 31 No. 1. These fragments also echo, to some extent, the thematic material of the Sonata Op. 31 No. 2, as already observed in the previous entry (Biamonti 317).
These sketches are located in the Kessler Sketchbook, on folio 95r, lines 15–16, and folio 95v, lines 9–16. On folio 95r, we find the opening of the Sonata up to measure 9, followed by Beethoven’s typical notation “vi=”, which refers to the fragment below (line 16, from the midpoint onward).
The second section of the fragments, which likely corresponds to the end of the exposition of this Sonata, is found on the following page, lines 9–16. Biamonti writes that this second fragment consists of 12 measures; in reality, the count is 13, since the third-to-last measure is repeated, and therefore must be considered double.
Gustav Nottebohm, on pages 35–36 of his volume Ein Skizzenbuch von Beethoven, describes them as follows: “Zwischen den genannten Skizzen erscheinen auch Theile zu den beiden andern Sätzen derselben Sonate; ferner drei verschiedene Bruchstücke, jedes ‘Sonata 2da’ überschrieben.” [“Among the cited sketches also appear parts of the other two movements of the same sonata; furthermore, three different fragments, each titled ‘Sonata 2da.’”]
Sheet 95r lines 15-16
Sheet 95v lines 9-16