Ludwig van Beethoven, Sinfonie Nr. 9 (d-Moll) op. 125, Posaunenstimmen zum 2. und 4. Satz, Stimmen, Autograph

Added trombones

No manuscript which can be considered to reflect the composer's final intentions has survived for Beethoven's ninth Symphony. There is an autograph score, the largest part of which is in Berlin. However, if one wishes to reconstruct this work, further sources have to be consulted. An important part of the puzzle is provided by the trombone parts for the second and fourth movements which were originally owned by Franz Schubert. It was only shortly before the first performance that Beethoven decided to extend the three trombone parts, probably at the end of April or beginning of May 1824. He wrote the parts which were missing from the original version in an additional three-part score of eight pages. Right at the beginning (image 1) Beethoven makes notes for the copyist, as to how he should copy the parts that followed. On the last page (image 8) he later made sketches for the canon "Te solo adoro" WoO 186. The lines are smudged and today hardly legible. (Beate A. Kraus)