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Auction archive: Lot number 10

# - Beethoven, Ludwig van.

Music
15 May 2008
Estimate
£8,000 - £10,000
ca. US$15,712 - US$19,640
Price realised:
£13,700
ca. US$26,907
Auction archive: Lot number 10

# - Beethoven, Ludwig van.

Music
15 May 2008
Estimate
£8,000 - £10,000
ca. US$15,712 - US$19,640
Price realised:
£13,700
ca. US$26,907
Beschreibung:

# - Beethoven, Ludwig van. AUTOGRAPH LEAF FROM A CONVERSATION BOOK, APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED about domestic matters, music and schindler, written in pencil in beethoven's wayward late hand, containing a mixture of shopping-list and comment, mentioning the carpenter, wigmaker, doctor, Beethoven's friend and biographer Anton Felix Schindler and, apparently, Clementi's Clavierschule, the verso containing annotations in the hand of his friend Carl Holz, evidently recording a conversation with Beethoven concerning a social gathering attended by Beethoven's friend Castelli and his publisher Tobias Haslinger [in Beethoven's hand:]...Clavierschule + Tischler + perücken= macher. --- + Arzt 50fl + Haarschneid + Schindler Bettstatt --- +Körbschen (flach) für die überbleibs. des Tisches zusammen 1 page, 8vo, irregularly cut, (c.19.3 x 12.5cm), on a guard, modern quarter calf, no place or date [Vienna, ?December 1826], creasing, traces of mount to verso

Auction archive: Lot number 10
Auction:
Datum:
15 May 2008
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

# - Beethoven, Ludwig van. AUTOGRAPH LEAF FROM A CONVERSATION BOOK, APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED about domestic matters, music and schindler, written in pencil in beethoven's wayward late hand, containing a mixture of shopping-list and comment, mentioning the carpenter, wigmaker, doctor, Beethoven's friend and biographer Anton Felix Schindler and, apparently, Clementi's Clavierschule, the verso containing annotations in the hand of his friend Carl Holz, evidently recording a conversation with Beethoven concerning a social gathering attended by Beethoven's friend Castelli and his publisher Tobias Haslinger [in Beethoven's hand:]...Clavierschule + Tischler + perücken= macher. --- + Arzt 50fl + Haarschneid + Schindler Bettstatt --- +Körbschen (flach) für die überbleibs. des Tisches zusammen 1 page, 8vo, irregularly cut, (c.19.3 x 12.5cm), on a guard, modern quarter calf, no place or date [Vienna, ?December 1826], creasing, traces of mount to verso

Auction archive: Lot number 10
Auction:
Datum:
15 May 2008
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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