Description

Having published the scores, Critical Commentaries and the complete performance material (BA 9021-9025) as well as a boxed set of study score editions (TP 920) to all five of Beethoven’s piano concertos, the study scores can now also be purchased individually.

The musical text reflects a meticulous examination of every surviving source, resulting in Urtext editions at the highest possible level. The study scores are supplemented by Introductions by Beethoven scholar Barry Cooper on the genesis of the concertos as well as Forewords by the renowned editor Jonathan Del Mar, with descriptions of the sources and the editorial method.

Description

The autograph to Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 is lost. For every new edition which has appeared during the course of time there have been only two authentic sources to draw upon; the copyist’s manuscript of the score with Beethoven’s own corrections and the first edition in parts from 1808 which was published in Vienna and which contains a few revisions dated after the aforementioned manuscript.

Though no new sources have been available for this new edition, numerous editorial emendations which have prevailed in all previous editions (even Urtext editions) have now been corrected.

Thus, this new Bärenreiter Urtext edition presents Beethoven’s famous work in the clarity which it deserves.

Description

The autograph to Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 is lost. For every new edition which has appeared during the course of time there have been only two authentic sources to draw upon; the copyist’s manuscript of the score with Beethoven’s own corrections and the first edition in parts from 1808 which was published in Vienna and which contains a few revisions dated after the aforementioned manuscript.

Though no new sources have been available for this new edition, numerous editorial emendations which have prevailed in all previous editions (even Urtext editions) have now been corrected.

Thus, this new Bärenreiter Urtext edition presents Beethoven’s famous work in the clarity which it deserves.