Beschreibung:

Beethoven, Ludwig van. AUTOGRAPH WORKING MANUSCRIPT OF PART OF THE FULL SCORE OF OPFERLIED OP.121B, FOR SOPRANO SOLO, OBBLIGATO CELLO, CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA, CONTAINING SUBSTANTIAL DIFFERENCES FROM THE FINAL PUBLISHED VERSION notated in black ink on two systems per page of up to 11 staves, containing bars 32 to 63 of the song (beginning "laß des Jünglings Opfer wohl gefallen"), with revisions, deletions and alterations by the composer, particularly to the solo soprano and the violoncello obbligato, which diverge markedly from the final version, many revisions in pencil (including to the soprano solo), and with fainter sketches and alternative passages noted in pencil on the lower free staves and margins, the cello obbligato part written above the soprano part, comprising some thirty-three bars (of seventy-four) 4 pages, folio (c.35.5 x 31.5cms), 23-stave paper (watermark: "FS" crowned [cf. Tyson no.57]), presentation inscription at the foot of the first page by August Artaria to John Ella ("Authographe de L.Beethoven presenté à Mr Ella, en temoignage d'estime par Auguste Artaria, Vienna, ce 22 Decembre 1845"), with later annotations in ink and pencil, some probably by Ella (including the attribution to Beethoven, the title and bar numbering), [Summer 1824], tear in the first system on the first page repaired (apparently by Beethoven), a few small holes to first leaf repaired (slight text-loss), wear along central fold to the first page, some staining and browning, Ella's annotations rather faint