Thematic Indices
Dorfmüller/Gertsch/Ronge: Ludwig van Beethoven, Thematic Indices
In 1955 G. Henle Publishers released a catalogue of all of Ludwig van Beethoven’s completed works prepared by Georg Kinsky and Hans Halm – a milestone in Beethoven literature. Since then, there have been a great number of developments in many areas of Beethoven research. The new complete edition of the works has impressively progressed, and Beethoven’s entire correspondence and conversation books have been issued in outstanding editions. A number of pioneering works on Beethoven’s creative process have also changed our view of the composer. This was reason enough to incorporate the current state of research into a new standard work suited for a broad readership! This new Beethoven Catalogue of Works, which has grown to nearly 2000 pages, facilitates the access to individual works through its clear structure: the information on the historical aspects of every work – genesis, edition, first performances, dedicatees, etc. – is followed by the description of the manuscripts and prints in a second section. And now, for the first time, not only the autographs but also the drafts and sketches to the work are comprehensively identified. The prints also comprise reprints and arrangements from Beethoven’s time, and list the locations where they were found. ******************** Contents: - Works with opus number - Works without opus number - 23 new works without opus number - 23 unfinished works - Opera and oratorio plans - Composition studies - Beethoven’s copies of works by other composers - Beethoven’s copies of theoretical literature - Spurious and dubious works - Appendix on publishers, history of publishing and collective editions - Indices and overviews: Systematic overview of works • Chronology of the works according to genesis and first edition • List of the original publishers, dedicatees and lyricists as well as title and text incipits of vocal works Main section of the catalogue in German, introduction in German and English. ******************** Look inside (PDF Download) Volume 1 Contents · Introduction (Extract) · How to use the catalogue · Catalogue entry Opus 2 · Catalogue entry Opus 84, Musik zu "Egmont" · Catalogue entry Opus 123, Missa solemnis Volume 2 Catalogue entry WoO 59, Für Elise · Catalogue entries WoO 120-122 · Catalogue entry WoO 152, Volksliedbearbeitungen · Catalogue entries WoO 207-210 · Unvollendete Werke 1-4 · Opernpläne (Extract) · Kompositionsstudien (Extract) · Abschriften aus Werken (Extract) · Anhang: Verlagswesen (Extract) · Übersichten und Register · Register: Chronologie der Werke nach Entstehung (Extract) · Register: Verlage, Sammeldrucke, Musikperiodika und Zeitschriften
About the Authors
Norbert Gertsch (Editor)
Dr. Norbert Gertsch, born in 1967 in Rheinkamp/Moers, studied piano solo at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and read musicology and philosophy at the Paris Lodron University in Salzburg and the Ruperto Carola University Heidelberg on a scholarship from the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”. In 1996 he wrote his doctoral thesis on Ludwig van Beethoven’s Missa solemnis (as part of the New Complete Edition) under Ludwig Finscher.
In the following year, he began to work at G. Henle Publishers, initially as an editor for electronic publishing. After working on a two-year project (1999–2000) sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG) preparing a new Beethoven Catalogue of Works, he became a scholarly editor at G. Henle Publishers. In 2003 he became Editor-in-Chief, in 2009 Deputy Managing Director and Head of Publishing. As of 1 January 2024, the Executive Board of the Günter Henle Foundation has appointed Dr. Norbert Gertsch, as the new managing director, succeeding Dr. Wolf-Dieter Seiffert.
Gertsch has published many Urtext editions for G. Henle Publishers, including volumes for a new edition of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas together with Murray Perahia.
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