The new Beethoven reference work
Over a period of 15 years, a team of leading experts worked closely with the international Beethoven research centers to compile the new Beethoven catalog raisonné, which is around 2000 pages long. It was presented at a ceremony on October 30.
In 1955, the G. Henle publishing house published a milestone in Beethoven literature with Georg Kinsky and Hans Halm's list of all of Ludwig van Beethoven's completed works. Since then, Beethoven research has virtually exploded in many areas. The new complete edition of Beethoven's works is well advanced, the entire correspondence and Beethoven's conversation booklets have been published in excellent editions. In addition, groundbreaking works by international authors on Beethoven's creative process have changed our image of the composer. Reason enough to present this current state of research in a new standard work for a broad readership!
The new, two-volume Beethoven catalog raisonné is clearly structured to facilitate
The presentation of the historical aspects of each work - creation, publication, first performances, dedicatees, etc. - is followed in a second section by a description of the manuscripts and prints. For the first time, the sketches for the work are also comprehensively listed among the autographs. The prints also include contemporary reprints and arrangements with details of where they were found.
The works without opus numbers are supplemented by 23 new works. In addition, there are separate chapters on Beethoven's unfinished works, his compositional studies, opera and oratorio plans and copies of works by other composers and theoretical works. Several appendices provide information on spurious and dubious works and on publishing and printing in Beethoven's time. Extensive overviews and indexes make it easier for the reader to find the desired information.
Contents
- Works with opus number
- Works without opus number
- 23 new works without opus number
- 23 unfinished works
- Opera and oratorio plans
- Composition studies
- Copies of Beethoven from works by other composers
- Beethoven's transcripts from Theoretika
- Fake and dubious works
- Appendix on publishing, printing history and collected editions
- Indexes and overviews: Systematic overview of works; chronology of works by genesis and first publication; list of original publishers, dedicatees and librettists as well as the beginnings of titles and texts of vocal works
Main part of the catalog in German, introduction in German and English
Ludwig van Beethoven - Thematic-bibliographical catalog raisonné
Edited by Kurt Dorfmüller, Norbert Gertsch and Julia Ronge
With the collaboration of Gertraut Haberkamp and the Beethoven-Haus Bonn
Revised and substantially expanded new edition of the catalog raisonné by Georg Kinsky and Hans Halm
2 volumes, linen, 1,996 pages, 18.5 × 26.5 cm, ribbon marker
HN 2207, ISBN 978-3-87328-153-0
Subscription price until 31. 12. 2014: € 435,-
Price from 01. 01. 2015: € 495,-
Publication date: 01. 11. 2014
