The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies
First and Early Editions
from the Beethoven Center's collection
© The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, San José State University
Return to description of collections

Title page of the first edition of the score for the Ninth Symphony, Opus 125
(Mainz & Paris: B. Schotts Söhnen, 1826)

Title page of the first edition of the Sonatas for Fortepiano, Opus 2, nos. 1-3
This is a proof copy and the earliest known printing of the score
(Vienna: Artaria, 1796)

Title page and engraved illustration from the
Select Collection of Original Irish Airs (WoO 152-154)
published by Preston in London and Thomson in Edinburgh in 1814 and 1816
Return to description of collections