Download or read book The Beethoven Sketchbooks written by Douglas Porter Johnson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive description of Beethoven's sketchbooks--bound books of music paper in which Beethoven made sketches for his compositions from about 1798--has been long felt by Beethoven scholars. Although almost all the sketchbooks have survived in one form or another, it became clear in the 1960s that they were in a state of disarray. A reconstruction of their original condition was essential to the proper study of their musical contents.