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BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van 1770-1827. A complete collection of sets of parts of all of the string quartets in first and early editions.

1 - Op. 18
1tes [-6tes] Quartett... 2 Violinen, Viola und Violoncello... 18tes Werk. Wien: Tobias Haslinger [without plate number] [ca. 1840].
Vl I: 1f. (title), [1] (blank), 2-12; 1f. (title), [1] (blank), 2-11; 1f. (title), [1] (blank), 2-11; 1f. (title), 9; 1f. (title), 9; 1f. (title), 9 pp.
Vl II: 9; 8; 9; 8; 8; 8 pp.
Va: 9; 7; 8; 8; 8; 8 pp.
Vc: 9; 7; 8; 7; 8; 7 pp.
Engraved. Kinsky p. 44. Hoboken 2, 96 and 97.
"It was to the set of String Quartets, op. 18, that Beethoven turned for the most ambitious single project of his early Vienna years. This set was begun in 1798, composed primarily in 1799 and 1800, and published in 1801 with a dedication to Prince Lobkowitz... All of them essentially accept the usual four-movement structure and all reflect the Viennese Classic style, with an occasional admixture of Italianate melody - perhaps under the influence of Salieri, to whom Beethoven had just dedicated his Sonatas, op. 12." Solomon: Beethoven, p. 101.
2 - Op. 59
[Trois Quatuors pour deux Violons, Alto et Violoncello... Oeuvre 59]. [Vienne: Au Bureau des arts et d'industrie A' Pesth chez Schreyvogel & Comp. [PNs 580, 585, 585] [1808]. Vl I: 2ff. (title, dedication to Count Razumovsky), [1] (blank), 2-13; [1] (blank), 2-11; 10 pp.
Vl II: 10; 9; 9 pp.
Va: 10; [1] (blank), 2-9; [1] (blank), 2-10 pp.
Vc: 10; 9; [1] (blank) 2-9 pp.
Engraved. First Edition of the Razumovsky quartets. Kinsky-Halm, p. 141. Dorfmüller, p. 216. Hirsch IV, 299. Hoboken 2, 274.
"The string quartets of op. 59 so strained the medium, as it was understood in 1806, that they met with resistance from players and audiences alike... Each quartet was supposed to include a Russian melody, for the benefit of the dedicatee Count Razumovsky, the Russian ambassador in Vienna. Here for the first time may be seen Beethoven's interest in folksong, which was to grow in later years. Folksongs did not much help the first two quartets, but Razumovsky's notion came to superb fruition in the third, where Beethoven gave up the idea of incorporating pre-existing tunes and instead wrote the haunting A minor Andante in what he must have conceived to be a Russian idiom." TNG Vol. 2, p. 383.
3 - Op. 74
Quatuor pour Deux Violons, Viola et Violoncelle compose et dedie a Son Altesse le Prince Regnant de Lobkowitz Duc de Raudnitz... Oeuv. 74. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [PN] 1609 [1810].
Vl I: [1] (title), [2] (blank), 3-11 pp.
Vl II: 7 pp.
Vla: 7 pp.
Vc: 7 pp.
Engraved. First German edition, second issue, published very shortly after the Chelemti edition (see Del Mar: Beethoven's String Quartets op. 74 op. 95 Critical Commentary, pp. 14-15). Kinsky p. 198; Hirsch IV, 320; Dorfmüller-Weinhold p. 220; Hoboken 2, 333 (all citing the Breitkopf edition as the first).
Often referred to as the "harp" quartet; the name derives from the pizzicato effects in the first movement.
4 - Op. 95
Elftes Quartett für zwey Violinen, Bratsche und Violoncelle Seinem Freunde dem Herrn Hofsekretär Nik. Zmeskall von Domanovetz ... 95tes Werk. Wien: S.A. Steiner und Comp. [PN S. et C. 2580] [1816].
Vl. I: 1f. (title, v. blank), [1] (publisher's announcement dated February 1816), 2-9 pp.
Vl II: [1] (blank), 2-9 pp.
Vla: [1] (blank), 2- 9 pp.
Vc: [1] (blank), 2-9 pp.
Engraved. First Edition, variant issue (distinguished by the presence of a diminuendo sign in measure 21 and a crescendo sign in measure 22 in the third movement of the second violin part). Del Mar P 1-1/2, p. 17. Kinsky-Halm p. 268. Hirsch IV, 355. Dorfmüller-Weinhold p. 224. Hoboken 2, 409.
"The Quartets in Eb and F minor were written about a year apart, then: an appreciable span of time, by Beethoven's earlier standards. But on this occasion, nothing of first importance appears to have occupied him in between. There would seem to be every reason to consider the two quartets together, in the same way that we naturally group together the six quartets, Op. 18, or the three of Op. 59. Indeed, the two share certain technical proclivities - in the attitude toward sonata form, for example, and toward the key sequence of movements - and both exhibit a poise and control that mark a decided advance over the earlier period (or sub-period). Nonetheless, between the two there is a cleavage in aesthetic stance unlike anything that differentiates the "Razumovsky" Quartets from one another. The Eb Quartet is an open, unproblematic, lucid work of consolidation, like some others written at this time. The F minor Quartet is an involved, impassioned, highly idiosyncratic piece, problematic in every one of its movements, advanced in a hundred ways. One work looks backward, perhaps, the other forward. Or to put it better, one work looks outward, the other inward. It would be hard to imagine any composer grouping these antipodes together as a single opus." Kerman: The Beethoven Quartets, p. 156.
We would like to thank Dr. Jonathan Del Mar for his kind assistance in the identification of this issue.
5 - Op. 127
Quatuor pour deux Violons, Alto et Violoncelle compose et dedie a Son Altesse Monseigneur le Prince Nicolas Galitzin... Oeuvre 127. Mayence: les fils de B. Schott [PN] 2351 [March 1826].
Vl I: 1f. (title, v. blank), [1] (blank), 2-13 pp.
Vl II: [1] (title), 2-12 pp. Va: [1] (title), 2-11 pp.
Vc: [1] (title), 2-11 pp.
Title lithographed, music engraved. First Edition. Kinsky-Halm p. 385. Hirsch IV, 399. Dorfmüller-Weinhold p. 232. Hoboken 2, 510. Schott also published this work in Paris at about the same time.
6 - Op. 130
Troisieme Quatuor pour 2 Violons, Alte & Violoncelle des Quatuors composes et dedies A Son Altesse Monseigneur le Prince Nicolas de Galitzin... Oeuvre 130... Ecrit et piquire par A. Kurka. Vienne: Maths. Artaria [PN M.A. 871] [May 1827]. Vl I: [1] (title), 2-15 pp.
Vl II: 13 pp.
Va: 11 pp., with manuscript overpaste to page 7
Vc: 11 pp.
Engraved throughout. Small oval publisher's blindstamp to lower margins. Binder's holes to inner margin. First Edition variant, with music commencing on verso of title to first violin part. Kinsky-Halm p. 395 (describing another printing with blank verso to title). Hirsch IV, 403. Hoboken 2, 516.
7 - Op. 131
Grand Quatuor En Ut dieze mineur pour deux Violons alto et Violoncelle compose et dedie a Son Excellence Monsieur Le Baron de Stutterhiem... Oeuvre 131. Mayence: les fils de B. Schott [PN] 2628 [June 1827].
Vl I: 1f. (title, v. blank), 13 pp.
Vl II: [1] (title), 2-13 pp.
Va: [1] (title), 2-13 pp. Vc: [1] (title), 2-13 pp.
Lithographic titles, music engraved. First Edition. .Kinsky-Halm p. 399. Hirsch IV, 405. Dorfmüller-Weinhold p. 233. 8 - Op. 132
Quatuor pour 2 Violons, Alto & Violoncelle Compose & Dedie a Son Altesse Monseigneur le Prince Nicolas de Galitzin... Oeuvre posthume. Oeuv 132. No. 12 des Quatuors. Berlin: Ad. Mt. Schlesinger... Paris: Maurice Schlesinger [PN] 1443 [Sept. 1827].
Vl I: [1] (title), [2]-[3] (blank), 4-19 pp.
Vl II: [1] (title), 2-15 pp.
Va: [1] (title), 2-15 pp. Vc: [1] (title), 2-15 pp.
Engraved throughout. Small oval publisher's stamp to lower corners of title. First Edition. Kinsky-Halm p. 402. Hirsch IV, 407. Dorfmüller-Weinhold p. 233. Hoboken 2, 521.
9 - Op. 133
Grande Fugue tantot libre, tantot recherche 2 Violons, Alte & Violoncelle. Dediee avec les plus profonde veneration A Son Altesse Imperiale et Royale Eminentissime Monseigneur le Cardinal Rodolphe... Oeuvre 133. Vienne: Math. Artaria [PN M.A. 877] [May 1827].
Vl I: [1] (title), [2] (blank), 3- 10 pp.
Vl II: [1] (blank), 9 pp.
Va: [1] (blank), 2-9 pp.
Vc: [1] (blank), 2-9 pp.
Engraved throughout. First Edition. Kinsky-Halm p. 405. Hirsch IV, 409. Dorfmüller-Weinhold p. 234. Hoboken 2, 524.
10 - Op. 135
Quatuor pour 2 Violons Alto & Violoncelle Compose & dedie a son ami Johann Wolfmeier... Oeuvre posthume. Oeuv....

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Collection of violin sonatas by Pugnani, Tartini and Viotti in score, early 19th century editions.

Contains:
- Pugnani, Gaetano 1731-1798. Six Sonates... Oeuvre III. Nouvelle Edition. Paris: l'Imprimerie du Conservatoire [PN] 127 [ca. 1800]. 1f. (title), 32 pp. Engraved. With Sieber overpaste to title. Browned. Lesure p. 518. RISM P5612.
- Pugnani. Six Sonates... Oeuvre [8]... Grave par Mme. Le Roy. Nouvelle Edition. Paris: Au magazin du Conservatoire de Musique [PN] 126 [1802]. 1f. (title), [1] (blank), 2-43 pp. Engraved. With Sieber overpaste to title. Some minor staining and foxing. RISM P 5620, PP5620 (no copies recorded in the U.S.).
- Tartini, Giuseppe 1692-1770. Douze Sonates... Nouvelle Edition Oeuvre 1er Livre I [Livre II]. Paris: Imprimerie du Conservatoire [PN] 137 [ca. 1802]. 1f. (title), 31; 1f. (title), 32-55 pp. Engraved. With Sieber overpaste to titles. Brainard p. xxxvi. RISM T247. Minor foxing; staining to several leaves.
- Viotti, Giovanni Battista 1755-1824. Six Sonates... Oeuvre IVme. 1r. Livre de Sonates de Violon. Papis [!]: Sieber [without plate number], 1793. 1f. (title), [1] (blank), 2-45 pp. Engraved. Signed by the publisher. With Sieber overpaste to title. First Edition, later issue. Giazotto 26-31. Lesure p. 635. RISM V1937.
- Viotti. Six Sonates... IIE. Livre de Sonates de Violon. Paris: Imbault [PN 180] [ca. 1808]. 1f. (title), [1] (blank), 2-51 pp. Engraved. With Sieber overpaste to title. Minor foxing throughout, moderate to final two pages. Giazotto 35-40. RISM V1940.
Folio. 19th century dark green boards with dark red leather label with previous owner's name (Mr. Deurbroucq) gilt within decorative border to upper.
Binding quite worn and rubbed. Some browning and foxing.

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[DIGGES, Dudley.]. A TRVE RELATION OF THE VNIVST, CRVELL, AND BARBAROVS PROCEEDINGS AGAINSFT THE EN.
SUBTITLE: continued: AND THEN IN ENGLIFH, BY FOME NEATHERLANDER; FALFLY ENTITULED, A TRVE DECLARATION OF THE NEWES THAT CAME OUT OF THE EAST-INDIES, WITH THE PINACLE CALLED THE HARE, WHICH ARRUIED AT TEXEL IN JUNE, 1624. TOGETHER WITH AN ANFWER TO THE FAME PAMPHLET BY THE ENGLIFH EAST-INDIA COMPANIE. * NOTE: Books published during this period used "F" for "S" and "U" for "V" commonly. This was not a printing error ! * Transliteration of title into modern English: A TRUE RELATION OF THE UNJUST, CRUEL, AND BARBAROUS PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE ENGLISH AT AMBOYNA IN THE EAST-INDIES BY THE NETHERLANDISH GOVERNOUR AND COUNCEL THERE ALSO THE COPY OF A PAMPHLET, SET FORTH FIRST IN DUTCH AND THEN IN ENGLISH, BY SOME NETHERLANDER; FALSLY ENTITLED, A TRUE DECLARATION OF THE NEWS THAT CAME OUT OF THE EAST-INDIES, WIYH THE PINACE CALLED THE HARE, WHICH ARGUED AT TEXEL IN JUNE, 1624...TOGETHER WITH AN ANSWER TO THE SAME PAMPHLET. * CONTENTS: This work contains the following tracts all bound in one volume with individual pagination: 1. A TRVE RELATION OF THE LATE VNIVST, CRVELL..1624 38p. 2. A TRVE DECLARATION OF THE NEWS THAT CAME...1624 20p. 3. THE ANSWER VNTO THE DVTCH PAMPHLET, MADE IN DEFENCE OF THE VNIVST AND BARBAROUS PROCEEDINGS AGAINFT THE ENGLISH AT AMBOYNA IN THE EAFT-INDIES, BY THE HOLLANDERS THERE London MDCXXIV [1624] 34p. * This title is well described in much bibliographic detail including the pamphlets in Cox [see below]. Per Cox on page 268, he states: "The authorship of this Relation has been attributed to Sir Dudley Digges, who had been sent to Holland in 1620 to endeavor to effect a settlement of the points in dispute between the English East India Company & the Dutch." * *** NOTE ABOUT THE [AUTHOR] : "Sir Dudley Digges, English politician, born in 1583; died in 1639. He was the son of Sir Thomas Digges, the celebrated geometer, was ambassador to Russia in 1618, and in 1621 was elected to parliament, where he was active in the impeachment of the Duke of Buckingham. He was at one time imprisoned in the Fleet by Charles I, whom he had offended, but was released on apologizing to the king, and in 1630 was appointed master of the rolls. He was a friend of Henry Hudson, and in 1610 was one of those who fitted out that explorer for his last voyage." Extracted from Virtual American Biographies. * Sir Dudley, a member of the gentry, was the son of Sir Thomas Digges M.P., the celebrated geometer, and Anne St. Leger [1555-1636] of a branch of the Neville family. * Sir Digges was outraged at the Dutch by the Amboyna massacre and therefore made it his business to issue these tracts and set the record straight. In an effort to also support the English East-India Company in Southeast Asia, he authored this work anonymously by placing at the bottom of the title page: "Publifhed by Avuthoritie" an allusion to himself. * Per Cox p. 268, relating to THE MASSACRE AT AMBOYNA: "The massacre of the English on trumped-up charges by the Dutch authorities at Amboyna was typical of the ruthlessness of the Dutch East India Company when it deemed its monopoly of the Archipelago was encroached on. The events called forth many tracts. In Osborne are six such pamphlets. Dryden based a play upon the incident. 1673 DRYDEN, JOHN. AMBOYNA: A Tragedy as it is enacted at the Theatre Royale, London." [End Cox citation] * Quoted from Wikipedia: "The Dutch and English enclaves at Amboyna. 1655 engraving. The Amboyna massacre occurred because of the intense rivalry between the East India companies of England and Holland in the spice trade. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) established a trading post at Amboyna (Ambon Island) in the Molucca Islands in 1609 by driving out the previously established Portuguese factors. The British East India Company established a factory (trading station) nearby at Cambello in 1615. * In 1619 the British and Dutch signed a Treaty of Defense which allowed England to have one-third of the spice trade to two-thirds for the Dutch. However, Dutch officials in the East Indies gave no heed to this peace pact and armed conflict continued. Eventually, the British attacked the Dutch at Batavia and drove them out. * Thereupon, the Dutch at Amboyna suspected that the British were about to attack them and assassinated their governor. The Dutch raided and over came the neighboring British East Indian Company factory in 1623. They tortured the surviving ten British factors, nine Japanese mercenary soldiers (samurai) and one Portuguese with fire and water, eventually using gunpowder charges to blow off their arms and legs. Any who survived the brutal torture were killed. * The suffering of the captives became a national cause in England, and compensation was eventually paid to the descendants of the victims. The strife between the two nations abated completely only after the Dutch leader William of Orange became king of England in 1689. * After the Amboyna Massacre, the British reduced their interest in the East Indies and focused their attention on the continent of Asia, specifically the Indian Sub-Continent. In 1796 and 1810 British forces captured Amboyna, but returned the colony to the Dutch upon cessation of hostilities." [End of citation Wikipedia] * BINDING: Bound in England by "Riviere & Son" per the inside cover. A very lovely mottled calf binding, raised bands, gold decorations and rules, red label, internal gilt rules & inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled end papers, * ILLUSTRATIONS: The frontis is a very nice full-page woodcut of the sad and most cruel torture of an English East-India Companie employee or sailor at the hands of two Dutchmen. There is a beautiful engraved armorial logo on the verso of the title paged and some of that is visible from the title page. The title page has a small collector's seal with "B" surrounded by two branches in the lower left corner. With 4 other engraved armorial head-pieces in the text as part of each essay. * CONDITION; This is a lovely copy, the most trivial wear to the corners and spine. There is some evidence of tiny old worm holes in the gutter of the inside of the pages & at the top and bottom areas, a bit of this also continued to the front cover, but again exceptionally minor. 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London 1624, Printed by H. Lownes for N. Newberry. Full calf raised bands, all edge gilt, marbled end papers, 14 x 18 cm. woodcut frontis, title page printed in black and red, gold stamping, mottled calf, beautifully bound,second impression.

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SPOHR, Louis 1784-1859. Collection of 12 string quartets in parts in first and early editions, [Subtitle]: as follows:
"The largest portion of Spohr's chamber music was for strings alone, ranging from 19 unsurpassed duos for two violins to four masterly, and largely unemulated, double string quartets. These, together with the 36 string quartets (and several other works for the same combination), seven string quintets and the String Sextet of 1848, display a number of common features. Spohr's own mastery of the violin is evident in all of them, and their technical difficulties, together with the particular style of performance necessary to secure their full effect, may partly explain their infrequent performance. The quartets, especially, fall into two distinct categories: solo quartets in the tradition of Rode (often entitled "Quatuor brillant"), which are essentially violin concertos with string trio accompaniment, and true quartets where the interest is more evenly divided between the instruments. At its most baneful, Spohr's virtuosity induced him to slip into predictable passage-work in the linking sections between the main tonal centres of his sonata form movement... There are, however, many examples of brilliance without vapidity in these works and his imagination seems particularly to have been stimulated by less usual combinations." Grove online

- Deux Quatuors... composes et dedies A Son Altesse Serenissime Monseigneur le Duc regnant de Saxe-Gotha et altenbourg... Oeuv. IV. Leipzig: chez A. Kühnel )Bureau de Musique) [PN 455] [1806]. [1] (title), 2-14; [1] (title), 2-9; [1] (title), 2-9; [1] (title), 2-9 pp. Engraved. Tears to edges of title to first violin part. First Edition. Göthel p. 13. With manuscript note to foot of title: "Den 19. Juni 1806."
- Deux Quatuors... composes et dedies A Monsieur Keller Conseiller de So Altesse le Margrave de Bade... Op. 15. Leipzig: chez C.F. Peters (Bureau de Musique) [PN 720] [1818]. [1] (title), [2-3] (blank), 4-15; [1] (blank), 2- 9; [1] (blank), 2-9; [1] (blank), 2-9 pp. Engraved. First Edition, later issue. Göthel p. 27.
- Xtes Quartett... 30tes Werk. Wien: S.A. Steiner und Comp. [PN S:u:C: 3017 [1819]. 13; [1] (blank), 2-9; [1] (blank), 2-9; [1] (blank), 2-9 pp. Engraved. First Edition. Göthel p. 51. Weinmann: Senefelder, Steiner & Haslinger, p. 167.
- Quatuor Brillant... Oeuv. 13 [corrected in manuscript to 43]. Leipzig: C.F. Peters [PN 1361] [1818]. 11; [1] (blank), 208; [1] (blank), 2-8; [1] (blank), 2-7 pp. Engraved. First Edition. Göthel p. 77.
- Trois Quatuors... Oe. 45. No. I [II-III]. Leipzig: C.F. Peters [PN 1487, 1489, 1490] [1818].
Violin I: 12; 13; 13 pp.
Violin II: [1] (blank), 2-9; [1] (blank), 2-11; [1] (blank), 2-10 pp.
Viola: [1] (blank), 2-9; [1] (blank), 2-11; [1] (blank), 2-10 pp.
Violoncello: [1] (blank), 2-9; 8; [1] (blank), 2-10 pp.
Engraved. First Edition. Göthel p. 82.
- Trois Quatuors... composes et dedies A Son Ami Andreas Romberg... Oeuvre 29. Vienne: Pierre Mechetti [PN] 381 [1815]. 23; [1] (title), 2-19; [1] (title), 2-19; [1] (title), 2-17 pp. Engraved. First Edition. Göthel p. 50. Weinmann Mechetti p. 11.
Four volumes. 19th century marbled paper over flexible boards with large labels titled in manuscript to uppers. Occasional annotations.
Bindings slightly worn. Minor browning, foxing and staining. In very good condition overall.

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