Literature

The collection of books and essays covers all areas of Beethoven scholarship and reception, including over 800 biographies of Beethoven, as well as monographs of works, studies of sketches and sources, writings on performance practice and instrumentation, general and specialist music historical studies, Viennensia and Bonnensia, bibliographical and lexical reference books, and documents and studies concerning aspects of reception history.
As far as books and essays are concerned an attempt is made to at least include everything that is written in the European languages. However, the collection of press cuttings has had to be reduced to local history clippings and reviews of books about Beethoven.

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