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Ludwig van Beethoven, Briefwechsel Gesamtausgabe, edited by Sieghard Brandenburg. 7 volumes. Munich: G. Henle, 1996–8. Vol. i, 1783–1807, lxxxix + 344 pp., ISBN 3 87328 055 8; vol. ii, 1808–13, xxi + 388 pp., ISBN 3 87328 056 6; vol. iii, 1814–16, xxii + 368 pp., ISBN 3 87328 057 4 (in slipcase with two coloured facsimile street-plans of Vienna from 1809 and 1824); vol. iv, 1817–22, xxiv + 560 pp., ISBN 3 87328 058 2; vol. v, 1823–4, xxiii + 405 pp., ISBN 3 87328 059 0; vol. vi, 1825–7, xxii + 397 pp., ISBN 3 87328 060 4; vol. vii, ‘Register’, x + 319 pp., ISBN 3 87328 061 2.

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Ludwig van Beethoven, Briefwechsel Gesamtausgabe, edited by Sieghard Brandenburg. 7 volumes. Munich: G. Henle, 1996–8. Vol. i, 1783–1807, lxxxix + 344 pp., ISBN 3 87328 055 8; vol. ii, 1808–13, xxi + 388 pp., ISBN 3 87328 056 6; vol. iii, 1814–16, xxii + 368 pp., ISBN 3 87328 057 4 (in slipcase with two coloured facsimile street-plans of Vienna from 1809 and 1824); vol. iv, 1817–22, xxiv + 560 pp., ISBN 3 87328 058 2; vol. v, 1823–4, xxiii + 405 pp., ISBN 3 87328 059 0; vol. vi, 1825–7, xxii + 397 pp., ISBN 3 87328 060 4; vol. vii, ‘Register’, x + 319 pp., ISBN 3 87328 061 2.

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Barry Cooper*
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University of Manchester

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1 Beethoven Studies 2, ed. Alan Tyson (Oxford, 1977), 119.Google Scholar

2 Beethoven-Jahrbuch, 2 (1956), cited in Tyson, ‘Prolegomena’, 2.Google Scholar

3 The Letters of Beethoven, ed. Emily Anderson, 3 vols. (London, 1961).Google Scholar

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6 Thayer, Alexander Wheelock, Ludwig van Beethovens Leben, rev. Hermann Deiters and Hugo Riemann, 5 vols. (Leipzig, 1907–23), iii, 341.Google Scholar

7 The melodies are all correctly identified in Albrecht, Letters to Beethoven, ii, 38, 88.Google Scholar

8 Ludwig van Beethovens sämtliche Briefe, ed. Emerich Kastner, rev. Julius Kapp (Leipzig, 1923).Google Scholar

9 Pisma Betchovena, ed. Nathan L. Fischman and Larissa Kirillina, 3 vols. (Moscow, 1970–86); vol. iv in preparation.Google Scholar