2。 A Selected List of Readings on Sketches Since 1969

Hans Schmidt, “Verzeichniss der Skizzen Beethovens,” Beethoven-Jahrbuch, Jg. 1965/68 (Bonn: Beethoven-Haus,1969), 7-128.  A first attempt to list the known sketchbooks and as many as possible of the detached sketch-leaves and bundles of leaves. Still useful.

L. Lockwood, Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992), Chapter 1: “On Beethoven’s Sketches and Autographs: Some Problems

of Definition and Interpretation” (originally published in Acta Musicologica, XLII (1970), 32-47.

D. Johnson, A. Tyson, R. Winter, The Beethoven Sketchbooks: History, Reconstruction, Inventory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985) (JTW)

Barry Cooper, Beethoven and the Creative Process (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990)

L. Lockwood, “The Beethoven Sketchbooks and the General State of Sketch Research,” in W. Kinderman, ed., Beethoven’s Compositional Process (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,1991), 6-13

W. Kinderman, “Beyond the Text: Genetic Criticism and Beethoven’s Creative Process” in Acta Musicologica, LXXXI (2009), 99-122.

Susanne Cox, Das Skizzenbuch “Engelmann” (Brill/Fink, Paderborn, 2022).  This important book on the “Engelmann” Sketchbook of 1823 provides a close study of its contents (sketches mainly for the Diabelli Variations and the NInth Symphony).  In the first chapter, the author offers a broad introduction to the world of the Beethoven sketches and on the main scholarship on them since Nottebohm, for which she gives a solid bibliography. The author, who is associated with the ongoing project “Beethovens Werkstatt,” also shows that future critical editions of the sketchbooks are likely to be produced in digital form, and so her thorough commentary can be read in conjunction with an edition that will be found online.