Our Recommendations

On this page, we present some articles, scores, and researches recommended by the authors of the Centro Ricerche Musicali Beethoveniane, which have brought prestige to the site and are unique.
Thius page is always updated with new additions helping to discover a new way to better appreciate the Bonn Master.

Beethoveniana (Gustav Nottebohm, 1872)

Beethoveniana. Aufsätze und Mittheilungen von Gustav Nottebohm – Leipzig, Verlag von C. F. Peters, 1872.

Fully digitized and with all the musical examples in mp3 format at your disposal.

Ludwig van Beethoven’s Studien im Generalbasse, Contrapuncte und in der Compositions-Lehre (Ignaz Ritter von Seyfried, varie edizioni)

Ludwig van Beethoven’s Studien in Generalbasse, Contrapuncte und in der Compositions-Lehre. Aus dessen handschriftlichem Nachlasse gesammelt und herausgegeben von Ignaz Ritter von Seyfried – Varie edizioni dal 1832.

Various editions, up to Louis Köhler’s Neue Ausgabe: a chronicle.

Beethoven Studien im Generalbass, Contrapunkt und der Composition (ByLouis Köhler, 1880)

Beethoven Studien im Generalbass, Contrapunkt und der Composition. Neue Ausgabe von Louis Köhler – Leipzig, J. Schuberth & Co., 1880.

Beethoven-Album. Ein Gedenkbuch (Autori vari, 1846)

Beethoven-Album. Ein Gedenkbuch dankbarer Liebe und Verehrung für den grossen Todten, gestiftet und beschrieben von einem Vereine von Künstlern und Kunstfreunden aus Frankreich, England, Italien, Deutschland, Holland, Schweden, Ungarn und Russland – Stuttgart, Hallberg’sche Verlagshandlung, 1846.

Skizzenbuch “Kafka” (The Kafka Sketchbook) (Autograph Miscellany from circa 1786 to 1799)

The Kafka Miscellanea, perhaps the most impressive work ever published on our site, is back online – thoroughly updated.
Currently, there are 254 musical examples; the remaining ones will be added gradually.

Album-Beethoven. – Dix Morceaux brillants pour le Piano (Autori vari, 1842)

Album-Beethoven. Dix Morceaux brillants pour le piano composés par Messieurs Chopin, Czerny, Döhler, Henselt, Kalkbrenner, Liszt, Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Moscheles, Taubert et Thalberg, et publiés par l’Éditeur P. Mechetti pour contribuer aux Frais du Monument de Louis van Beethoven à Bonn. – Vienne, Pietro Mechetti, 1842.

Beethoven and the Art of Horology – The Watches of Beethoven – Part 1 (Luigi Domenico Bellofatto and Armando Orlandi, 2011)

Published in Bonner Beethoven-Studien Vol 9 (2011) – Luigi Bellofatto (Bovisio Masciago) – Armando Orlandi (San Biagio di Valpolcevera – Genoa) Beethoven and the Art of Horology. The watches of Beethoven, Tobias Haslinger and Alexander W. Thayer Part 1: The watches belonging to Beethoven.

Completed by Beethoven and the Art of Horology – The Watches of Beethoven – Part 2: Addenda & Corigenda, published by Bonner Beethoven-Studien Vol 11 (2014).

The first fixing in modern time of the pendulum of Ludwig van Beethoven (Armando Orlandi, 2011)

The first modern repair of Ludwig van Beethoven’s pendulum. – Armando Orlandi at the Beethoven-Haus, Bonn, September 29, 2011.

The concert of April 25, 2014 at the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn 

Played on the Conrad Graf fortepiano by Maestro Massimo Anfossi.