[Grande tugue [i.e. fugue] á quatre mains, oeuvre 134 manuscrit original Fugues, piano, 4 hands op. 134, B♭ major Beethoven, Ludwig van 1770-1827 creator Haslinger, Tobias 1787-1842 Arrigoni, Luigi. notated music x [1826] monographic z print 40 [i.e. 82] p. of ms. music, bound ; 26 x 34 cm. Canons, fugues, etc. (Piano, 4 hands) Scores Kinsky-Halm, Sotheby's London music auction catalogue, "Ludwig van Beethoven, the lost autograph manuscript of the Grosse Fugue in B flat major, in the composer's version for piano four-hands, op. 134," Sotheby's London separately published auction catalogue, RISM series A/II, http://library.juilliard.edu/record=b1130382 Beethoven].Holograph in black ink; includes extensive corrections and other markings, some in red crayon, with pasted-over and tipped-in sections.Composer's arrangement of Grosse Fuge, op. 133, originally final movement of string quartet no. 13 in B♭, op. 130.Title from binding cover.Written summer 1826. Cf. Kinsky-Halm.First ed. published as: Grande fugue tantôt libre, tantôt recherchée, pour 2 violons, alte & violoncelle, oeuvre 133 / de Louis van Beethoven ; arrangée pour le pianoforte à quatre mains par l'auteur mème, oeuvre 134. Vienne : chez Maths. Artaria, [1827]. Pl. no.: M.A. 878.Edition based on this holograph published as: Grosse Fuge für Klavier zu vier Handen, opus 134 = Grand fugue for piano four-hands, op. 134. München : G. Henle, c2010. Publisher's no.: HN 954.Score format, paginated on rectos only.Bound in 19th-century decorative board covered with cloth, somewhat worn at edges and spine, and incorporating copy of 1st ed. of work following holograph. Score slightly worn, with moderate discoloration, staining, and some remnants of red sealing wax apparent. Party responsible for, and date of binding holograph and 1st ed. copy together unknown.Decorative bookplate inside front cover marked: Ex libris / Luigi / Arrigoni / Arrigoni Mediolani / Toujours en avant.On prelim. p. in partly faded ms. black ink: Beethovens Handschrift / Herrn Grafen von Alberti / zur freundlichen Errinerung / Tobias Haslinger. In brown ink below Haslinger inscription: Á Mad.lle [last 3 letters in superscript] Brisson / Alberti / Milano 27/2 57. At bottom of same p. in pencil: To the Count of Alberti / in friendly memory of-. To left of foregoing inscriptions in pencil: +1942."Einzige vierhändige / Partitur die von / Beethoven vorhanden ist"--Prelim. p. left side, in faded pencil written at oblique angle.Juilliard Manuscript Collection, Lila Acheson Wallace Library, The Juilliard School.Gift; Bruce Kovner; 2006.Acquired by Viennese music publisher Tobias Haslinger in 1839, then passed to Count von Alberti, who in turn conveyed the ms. to Mlle. Brisson in Milan in 1857. Subsequently owned by Luigi Arrigoni, sold at auction in Paris at the Hotel Drouot in May of 1890, then sold at auction in Berlin by Liepmannssohn Antiquariat to William Howard Doane of Cincinnati, conveyed to Marguerite Treat Doane, and next acquired by the Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia in 1950. Sold at auction at Sotheby's, London on Dec. 1, 2005, Lot 11.With: Grande fugue tantôt libre, tantôt recherchée, pour 2 violons, alte & violoncelle, oeuvre 133 / de Louis van Beethoven ; arrangée pour le pianoforte à quatre mains par l'auteur mème, oeuvre 134. Vienne : chez Maths. Artaria, [1827]. Bound together subsequent to production. NNJujuilliardconsortiumconsortiumhttp://library.juilliard.edu/record=b1130382 http://www.juilliardmanuscriptcollection.org/composers.php#/hires/BEET/BEET_GF4A Restricted access; Apply; Library Director. aacr2 ZJS 201007 20100715143750.1 647992058 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.3 using MARC21slim2MODS3-3.xsl (Revision 1.54)