Recent Special Acquisitions (1998-1999) at the Beethoven Center

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THIS SELECTIVE LIST DESCRIBES FIRST EDITIONS OF BEETHOVEN'S MUSIC AND OTHER SPECIAL MATERIALS acquired by the Beethoven Center in 1998 and 1999. Also listed are rare early editions, and later editions of bibliographic interest, that are not cited in either Georg Kinsky and Hans Halm, Das Werk Beethovens: Thematisch-bibliographisches Verzeichnis seiner sämtlichen vollendeten Kompositionen (1955), or Kurt Dorfmüller's Beiträge zur Beethoven-Bibliographie (1978), or of which no other extant copy has been traced.

With the support of members of the American Beethoven Society, the Center acquired the rare first edition of the Fortepiano Concerto No. 4 in a complete set of parts. This …