Biamonti 464 – Sketch for Piano, Grasnick Notebook No. 3, Sheet 18, First Page, Lines 1 and 2 (Dagmar Weise, page 95). Final months of 1808.

The musical examples on this page are by Graziano Denini.

Biamonti 464 – Sketch for Piano, Grasnick Notebook No. 3, Sheet 18, First Page, Lines 1 and 2 (Dagmar Weise, page 95). Final months of 1808.

This sketch is preserved in Berlin at the Staatsbibliothek, within the sketchbook known as “Grasnick 3,” specifically on sheet 18r, lines 1–2. As with the preceding entries, the fragment is brief and elusive, lacking a definitive key signature or clear compositional destination. Nevertheless, Dagmar Weise, in her meticulous scholarly transcription, suggests that it may be associated with the Fantasia for Piano, Chorus, and Orchestra, Opus 80.

NOTE: The notebook, known as “Grasnick 3,” was formerly preserved at the Preussische Staatsbibliothek and is now available in facsimile at the Beethoven-Haus. It was studied by Nottebohm (N II, Chapter XLVII) and more recently by Dr. Dagmar Weise in 1957.

The notebook comprises 43 sheets (86 pages) containing sketches for Opus 80, Opus 73, and the Lied “Gegenliebe”, as well as drafts for unknown works: Biamonti 457 and 474.