Sinfonie mit Schluß-Chor...125tes Werk. [Symphony IX] - Rare Early 20th-Century Facsimile of Beethoven's 9th Symphony

Leipzig: Kistner und Siegel. 1924. First edition. Sinfonie mit Schluß-Chor über Schillers Ode "An die Freude" für großes Orchester, 4 Solo und 4 Chor-Stimmen, componiert und seiner Majestät dem König von Preußen Friedrich Wilhelm III. in tiefster Ehrfurcht gewidmet ... 125tes Werk. Facsimile of the autograph manuscript full score in the Preußischen Staatsbibliothek Berlin. Large folio (16 x 16 inches; 41 x 41 cm). 402 pp. A desirable and rare early 20th century collotype facsimile of Beethoven's manuscript, one of only 150 copies issued. The original single sheets have each been reproduced in their original formats, with Beethoven's red pencil corrections also reproduced in color.  Original cardboard box (bumped, partly loosened at the joints and edges, somewhat rubbed and stained) with mounted front cover title. First sheet with foxing and small edge tear, lacking the printed title sheet but including the printed publisher's printed notice and otherwise in fine condition throughout. Kinsky-Halm 374.

A few weeks before his death in February, 1827, Beethoven gave part of the final movement and movements I-III to his biographer Anton Schindler. The Königliche Bibliothek zu Berlin bought his collection in 1846 and the remainder of the final movement joined the library only in 1901 through the purchase of the Artaria collection. The included printed notice states that (translated from the German), "Beethoven's original manuscript, which is kept in Berlin, consists of a bound volume and a large number of individual sheets of different formats. The present facsimile edition, which summarizes all individual parts in original size, was produced with the permission of the Prussian State Library." After Beethoven's autograph was relocated during World War II, parts of it were in Kraków for many decades, while the other part was kept in the German State Library of East Berlin and the State Library of Prussian Cultural Heritage in West Berlin only had part of the final movement. Today all parts are united in Berlin. (21338)

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