Biamonti 732 – Piece (sketch) in the manner of a dance in E-flat major (possibly a Scottish), circa 1820. The original manuscript is located in the Library of the Paris Conservatory. It is held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in the manuscript titled Gallica 63.

It is described by Max Unger in his booklet on the manuscripts deposited in Paris at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, who defines it as follows:

“Unbenutze Skizzen, u. a. zu einem tanzartigen Stück in Es-dur (Esossaise?)” [“Unused sketches, among others for a dance-like piece in E-flat major (Ecossaise?)”].

Max Unger also reports: “auf der sonst leeren Vorderseite hat ein Unbekannter zwei Fragen an Beethoven vermerkt. Das Blatt war ehemals im Besitz des Wiener Sammler Joh. Kafka” [“On the otherwise blank front side, an unknown person wrote two questions to Beethoven. The sheet was formerly in the possession of the Viennese collector Joh. Kafka”].

In the manuscript file’s commentary, the librarians of the Bibliothèque nationale have hypothesized that this fragment—given the similarity of the first three measures—might be a sketch for the Ecossaise WoO 86. Particularities: It consists of only 22 measures (6 + 6 + 4 + 6). Following this sketch is another one, apparently also in E-flat major but in 4/4 time, written in faint pencil and barely legible. Unfortunately, the fourth and fifth measures are rendered even more illegible by the red stamp that marks manuscripts formerly belonging to Prof. Charles Mahlerbe.

Another particularity of this manuscript page is that it was written on both sides; considering the text with the two questions on the front page, the dance fragment and the subsequent sketch appear upside-down, while the word “osia” on the fourth line appears upright.