Kafka Sketchbook – Part 4: Beethoven’s Extended and Fully Defined Works (Pages 133–164) | Beethoven Music Research Center www.lvbeethoven.org

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Skizzenbuch “Kafka” (Kafka Sketchbook) Third Section – Sketches of extended and already defined works ( Pages 133 – 164 )

Autograph Miscellany from circa 1786 to 1799
British Museum additional Manuscript 29801, ff 39-162. Edited by Joseph Kerman, Professor of Music, University of California at Berkley. London 1970

Sketches of works with Opus number

Pages 1 / 68

Sketches of works without opus numbers (WoO)

Pages 69 / 102

Sketches of extended and already defined works

Pages 103 / 132

Pages 133 / 164

Pages 165 / 182

Sketches of extended and already defined works

Pages 185 / 208

Pages 209 / 235

Pages 236 / 254

Pages 255 / 274

Minuet for orchestra (Kafka folio 99 recto, lines 6 and 7 onward

Quartet (?) in G major for piano and wind instruments (Allegro – Adagio – Finale: Variations on “Ah, vous dirai-je maman”) (Folio 84 recto, 85 recto-verso – Page 134)

Romance Cantabile in E minor for flute, bassoon, piano and orchestra – Fragment *(Hess 13 – WoO 207) (Folio 74 verso, 80 verso – Page 137)

Rondo in A major for violin and orchestra (Folio 131 recto, 132 recto – Page 146)

Sonata movement for piano in C major (I) (Folio 149 recto – Page 147)

Sonata movement for piano in C minor (II) (Folio 150 recto, 151 recto-verso – Page 148) (preliminary phase – see footnote for other versions)

Sonata movement for piano in C minor (II – Beethoven fragment) (Folio 117 recto – Page 156)

Song in C major (I) (Folio 46 verso, 47 recto – Page 157) – Sketch No. 5 – Variant I

Song in C major (II) (Folio 141 verso – Page 159) – Free reconstruction from sketches by Graziano Denini

Song in C major (III) (Folio 149 recto – Page 160) – Version in 3/4

Song in C major (III) (Folio 149 recto – Page 160) – Version in 4/4 with harmonization by Graziano Denini

Song in E-flat major (Folio 133 recto – Page 160) – Harmonization by Graziano Denini

Song in G major “Ich sah sie heut” Biamonti 261 (Folio 39 recto – Page 161) – Reconstruction by Graziano Denini

Song in G major “Wie Pisang war im Paradies” (Folio 43 verso, 67 verso – Page 161)

Song in G major “… und wessen Stimm” (Folio 51 recto – Page 163) – Sketches for the first part of the Lied

Song in G major “… und wessen Stimm” (Folio 51 recto – Page 163) – Sketches for the ending of the Lied

Study (?) for piano in A-flat major (Folio 60 recto – Page 164)

Skizzenbuch “Kafka” (Kafka Sketchbook) Third Section – Sketches of extended and already defined works ( Pages 133 – 164 ) A Study of the Sketches (Sonata Movements) – By Graziano Denini

Autograph Miscellany from circa 1786 to 1799
British Museum additional Manuscript 29801, ff 39-162. Edited by Joseph Kerman, Professor of Music, University of California at Berkley. London 1970

Sonata movement for piano in C minor (II) (Folio 150 recto, 151 recto-verso – Page 148) Preliminary phase

First phase without variations

First phase with variations

Intermediate phase with variations

Intermediate phase without variations

Final phase – first draft

Final phase – definitive sketch

Preliminary phase of a hypothetical reconstruction

Quartet (?) in G major for piano and wind instruments (Folio 84 recto, 85 recto-verso – Page 134) Initial Allegroggiore per pianoforte e strumenti a fiato (Allegro iniziale) (Folio 84 recto, 85 recto-versus, – Pagina 134)

First Allegro with variants

inale: Variations on “Ah, vous dirai-je maman” with variants

Finale: Variations on “Ah, vous dirai-je maman” – free interpretation

Rondo in A major for violin and orchestra (Folio 131 recto, 132 recto – Page 146) Original version

Free interpretation

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