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Ludwig van Beethoven |
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Sketches for Piano Sonata in E, Opus 109, Second Movement |
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Dr. William Kinderman, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign |
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| This is a generative website that explores the creative process of Ludwig van Beethoven during the composition of his Piano Sonata in E, Opus 109, movement II. Researched and compiled by Dr. William Kinderman at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Music, this investigation is made possible by examining Beethoven's sketchbooks and drafts in the Artaria 195 Sketchbook. | |||
| The Artaria 195 Sketchbook is held in the Music Department of the Staatsbibliothek preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin. As originally used by Beethoven, it included leaves now held separately in Berlin, in Paris at the Bibliotheque Nationale, and in the private collection of Dr. Matthew Malerich, Bakersfield, California. | |||
| The following pages begin with a conceptual sketch, shown below, followed by what is thought to have been the order of sketches that led up to the final work, found in draft 10. At the bottom of each page are links to the next draft, as well as the other successive drafts. | |||
| Included with each draft are MIDI renderings of the sketchbooks shown. It may be necessary in some sketches to follow the 'roadmap' provided in the commentary to place what you are hearing with what you are seeing in the music. Beethoven often jumped around on a page, or even from page to page, in developing ideas in his sketchbooks. As a result, otherwise logical succession is often not heeded. | |||
| Please feel free to jump around from sketch to sketch, and explore the genius behind the creation of this work. | |||
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| All material is drawn from William Kinderman, "Artaria 195: Beethoven's Sketchbook for the Missa Solemnis and the Piano Sonata in E Major, Opus 109" (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003) | |||
| To order this publication, please contact the University of Illinois Press website. | |||
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Drafts 1a and b • Draft 2 • Draft 3 • Draft 4 • Draft 5 • Draft 6 • Draft 7 • Draft 8 • Draft 9 • Finished work |
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