Beethoven Web Resources
Selected links to other Beethoven websites
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Reference
Ludwig van Beethoven's website, by Dominique Prevot (English version); portal to versions in other languages
An impressive site with biographical information, images, sound files, catalogs of works, and much more.
Includes a Vienna tour guide and picture gallery of Beethoven's homes.
Ludwig van Beethoven Indexed Biography
Chronological charts of events in Beethoven's life.
Reprints (with permission) the Beethoven biography from Grove Music and offers a large collection of MIDI sound files.
Unheard Beethoven by Mark S. Zimmer and "Willem."
Project to create MIDI sound files of Beethoven's lesser known and incomplete works, including descriptions of sources and a searchable catalog.
Directory with links to free downloads of performances
Collections
Beethoven House (archive and museum) in Bonn
Digital archives and catalogs of the extensive collections, virtual tours of the museum, updates on research and publication activites, online museum shop.
Ninth Symphony at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (German only)
Digital images and description of Beethoven's autograph manuscript.
First and Early Editions by Beethoven
Catalog from the Music Library of Kunitachi College in Tokyo edited by Yumiko Hasegawa.
RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales)
The RISM is an international collective undertaking with the aim of comprehensively documenting surviving music sources anywhere in the world. The online catalog contains around 700,000 references almost exclusively to music manuscripts. Many (but not all) of the existing Beethoven autographs and copyists manuscripts of Beethoven's works are listed here.
Juilliard Manuscript Collection
The manuscript collection donated to Juilliard by Bruce Kovner in 2006 includes several Beethoven manuscripts.
Search in this catalog for Beethoven for the Morgan Library's listings of its Beethoven manuscripts and first editions.
The special and performing arts collections of the Library of Congress includes first editions, manuscripts, and other Beethoven materials.
Books/journals
Journal of the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe
Recordings/Scores
Unheard Beethoven by Mark S. Zimmer and "Willem."
Project to create MIDI sound files of Beethoven's lesser known and incomplete works, including descriptions of sources and a searchable catalog.
Directory with links to free downloads of performances
Instruction
How to play the "Moonlight" Sonata on guitar
Merchandise
Travel
Beethoven memorial house in Floridsdorf/Vienna
Site for the memorial house once owned by Countess Marie Erdödy
Societies, Centers, and more
Center for Beethoven Research, Boston University
The Center promotes scholarship in a wide spectrum of Beethoven studies, with a focus on analysis and criticism, sketch and autograph studies, biography, and historical and cultural contexts.
All-Beethoven web radio sponsored by the Empire Broadcasting Corporation.
Beethoven Piano Society of Europe
Ludwig van Beethoven Association (Crakow, Poland)
The Ludwig van Beethoven Association was founded on 24 September 2003 in Cracow.
The primary activity of the Association is to organize Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival
and to promote classical music.