HISTORY, SCIENCE & PHILOSOPHY 82 “A Serious, Stormy, Elevated, And Difficult Work”: Beethoven’s Rare Opus 1, Three Trios For Piano, Violin And Cello, One Of The Scarcest And Most Desirable Of Beethoven First Editions 90BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van. Trois Trios Pour le Piano-Forte, Violon, et Violoncelle... Oeuvre 1re. Vienna, 1795. Oblong quarto, three separate parts neatly respined, pp. 65, 21, 17; custom clamshell box. $60,000 First edition, earliest issue, fully engraved, of Beethoven’s Opus 1, the earliest compositions Beethoven considered to be “worthy of publication with an opus number and to proclaim his name” (Thayer), one of the earliest and rarest Beethoven first editions, one of very few complete copies extant.
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