Anglaise in G, Biamonti 48, later variant
This short piano draft is found in autograph 28, the Fischhof Miscellany, in the Staatsbibliothk in Berlin. While the Anglaise in G minor/G Biamonti 48 that is found in the Kafka Miscellany in the British Library is melodically complete, it is apparent from this sketch that Beethoven also considered the G major section going off into rather dramatic chords and venturing into more distant keys. This sketch is provided for sake of comparison with Biamonti 48 to see a very clear example of the evolution of Beethoven's ideas. Whether this is earlier or later than the Kafka sketch is somewhat indeterminate, but the Kafka sketch is on a paper type dating from Bonn and the present Fischhof sketch is on paper from Vienna, about 1798-1801. This may well be an instance of Beethoven going back to older material and mining it for ideas for new compositions.
Biamonti: 48