Grande Sonate pour Pianoforte et Violoncelle composée et dédiée à Monsieur le Baron de Gleichenstein par Louis van Beethoven (Leipzic: Chez Breitkopf & Härtel, [1809]), [PN] 1328. 27 pp. First edition, later issue. Bound together with: Deux sonates pour le pianoforte et violoncelle composées par L. van Beethoven (Bonn et Cologne: Chez N. Simrock, [1817]), [PN] 1337, 1338. 19, 23 pp. First edition. Lithographed title pages, with music engraved throughout. Oblong quarto, sewn, with cardboard covers. Overall foxing and toning and some edge wear; partial split to the binding; overall in very good condition. 13 x 10 inches (33 x 25 cm).

The piano part to the Grande Sonate is a later issue of the original edition of op. 69, with corrected opus number. The score to the cello sonatas op. 102 is the original edition according to Kinsky-Halm. Ref. Kinsky-Halm, p. 165 and 283. 

The Grande Sonate op. 69 has been described as the first cello sonata to give equal importance to the cello and piano parts. Composed in 1808, it was dedicated to Baron Ignaz von Gleichenstein and first performed by Nikolaus Kraft and Dorothea von Ertmann in 1809. The cello sonatas no. 4 and 5, op. 102, were composed between 1812 and 1817, during a difficult period when Beethoven's deafness was becoming increasingly profound. They were published in 1817 with a dedication to Countess Marie von Erdody, a close friend and confidante of the composer.