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Drabkin William ed., Ludwig van Beethoven: A Sketchbook from the Year 1821 (Artaria 197): Sketches for the Agnus Dei and other movements of the Missa solemnis, the Piano Sonatas Op. 110 and Op. 111, and the Canon WoO 182, Vol. I: Facsimile, 88 pp; Vol. II: Transcription and Commentary, 97 pp (Bonn: Verlag Beethoven-Haus, 2010). € 186,00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2013

Nicholas Marston*
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King's CollegeUniversity of [email protected]

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References

1 Drabkin, William, ‘Beethoven sketches’, The Musical Times 121 (1980), 781Google Scholar

2 Ludwig van Beethoven: Kesslersches Skizzenbuch: vollständiges Faksimile des Autographs, ed. Sieghard Brandenburg (Munich: Katzbichler, 1976); Ludwig van Beethoven: Kesslersches Skizzenbuch: Übertragung von Sieghard Brandenburg (Bonn: Beethoven-Haus, 1976–1978).

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7 Artaria 195: Beethoven's Sketchbook for the “Missa solemnis” and the Piano Sonata in E major, opus 109, transcribed, edited and with a commentary by William Kinderman, 3 vols. (Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2003).

8 JTW, pp. 271–2. The identification of a hitherto unremarked setting of the plainsong hymn Pange lingua gloriosa on page 4, staves 1/2-3/4 was made by Barry Cooper during 2012 (see, for example, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20070588), after this review had been submitted for publication.

9 Among his other publications on the Missa cited in the endnotes to the Introduction and Commentary (II, 30–3), Drabkin omits to cite his Beethoven: Missa solemnis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), which surveys the sources for the work.

10 Drabkin, ‘Beethoven Sketches’: 782Google Scholar

11 Drabkin's identification, in his ‘Inventory of the Sketchbook’ (II, 20) of this sketch as ‘End of a piece in B or B flat’ is entirely plausible; but Beethoven provides no characteristic final barline marking a real ending (compare I, 77, st. 6/7), and there is nothing to say that these two bars do not represent a half-cadence in E or E flat. This is not to say, however, that the sketch on I, 1, st. 1/2 corresponds directly to any part of the second movement of op. 109.

12 Drabkin, ‘Beethoven Sketches’: 782Google Scholar