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Beethoven resources

Original manuscripts at Stanford

These items reside in the Department of Special Collections, Green Library.

Large-scale facsimiles are on display in the Music Library.

The catalog records below link to high-resolution, downloadable digitized images.

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Special Collections » Memorial Library of Music » MLM 39
[Elegischer Gesange, opus 118] / Beethoven.
Special Collections » Memorial Library of Music » MLM 42
Autograph note to Josef August Röckel from Ludwig van Beethoven, undated.
Special Collections » Manuscript Collection » MLM 44
[Quintette in C, opus 29] / Beethoven.
Special Collections » Memorial Library of Music » MLM 46
[Sketch for a song] / Beethoven.
Special Collections » Memorial Library of Music » MLM 49

At the Ira F. Brilliant Center

Manuscripts in the Beethoven Center's collection
Includes letters, sketches, and copyist's manuscripts.

On the web

The Music Treasures Consortium
"The Music Treasures Consortium provides online access to the world's most valued music manuscripts and print materials, held at the most renowned music archives, in order to further research and scholarship."--website. Contains 46 Beethoven entries.