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In Defence Of Josephine

Our review of Jan Swafford’s biography Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph received critical comments from John E. Klapproth. We asked him to write down his critique in an article, which he kindly agreed to do. Klapproth’s main criticism centers around the identity of the Immortal Beloved; he strongly believes that the …

by Ferdinand Schimon

The New Kinsky-Halm Catalogue

Our friends at the Beethovenhaus have issued through Henle the long-awaited second edition of the classic Thematic Catalogue of Beethoven’s Works by Georg Kinsky and Hans Halm. The new edition, edited by Kurt Dorfmüller, Norbert Gertsch and Julia Ronge, brings much of the research up to date. The new catalogue …

Christmas Orchestrations

Orchestrations of the Piano Sonatas op. 109 – 111 ( www.gerdprengel.de/orchestrations.html  ) by Gerd Prengel This summer I was hiking through a beautiful countryside in the area of my hometown Darmstadt while listening to Beethoven’s wonderful Andante from the late piano sonata op. 109. As I was listening, I think it …

Welcome to Our New Contributing Authors!

We at The Unheard Beethoven are exceedingly pleased to announce several additions to our little Beethoven family, three celebrated Beethoven scholars who have kindly agreed to be contributing authors. * Professor Barry Cooper, University of Manchester. Barry Cooper studied music at University College, Oxford (MA, 1973; DPhil., 1974), where he …

Author of Canon in C, Hess Anhang 60, Identified

The author of the Canon in C, Hess Anhang 60, who has remained unknown for almost two centuries, has at last been identified as Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690-1749). Several canons can be found in Beethoven’s manuscripts dating from the time when he studied counterpoint with Albrechtsberger in Vienna in 1793-94. …

Prof. Barry Cooper, University of Manchester

Beethoven´s rediscovered hymn ´Pange lingua´

Recently Professor Barry Cooper, of Manchester University, famous for his reconstruction of the 10th Symphony, discovered amongst the sketches of the Missa Solemnis an unknown hymn by Beethoven.  It is an arrangement of the Gregorian Chant ‘Pange lingua’. Professor Cooper was so kind to share this link with us : Pange …