{"id":216,"date":"2014-05-22T02:41:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T06:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/beethovencenter\/?page_id=216"},"modified":"2017-07-05T09:59:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T13:59:00","slug":"v-gustav-nottebohm-1817-1882","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/beethovencenter\/v-gustav-nottebohm-1817-1882\/","title":{"rendered":"V. Gustav Nottebohm (1817-1882)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The founding father of Beethoven sketch studies. Despite some comments by a few earlier authors, Nottebohm was the first musician to carry out close study of many sketchbooks and sketch-leaves, revealing for the first time the scope and importance of this material.
\nOriginally from north Germany, Nottebohm studied in Berlin and Leipzig (where he knew Mendelssohn and Schumann)\u00a0 before settling in Vienna in 1846, where he taught theory, was active as a composer , was a member of Brahms\u2019s circle, and carried out scholarly projects.\u00a0 Brahms, who admired his work,\u00a0 wrote about him that \u201c it is the result of immense industry and will be of the highest interest to artists, connoisseurs, and amateurs…\u201d<\/p>\n

Nottebohm contributed to the first collected edition of Beethoven\u2019s works (Breitkopf & H\u00e4rtel, 1862), and later published an important thematic catalogue of Beethoven\u2019s works (1868) as well as one of Schubert\u2019s (1874).<\/p>\n

Main publications on Beethoven sketchbooks and related subjects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
N 65<\/td>\nEin Skizzenbuch von Beethoven<\/em> (1865)<\/td>\nA monograph on the Kessler sketchbook of 1801-2.<\/td>\nTranslated into English by Jonathan Katz, Two Beethoven Sketchbooks<\/em> (London, 1979).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
N I<\/td>\nBeethoveniana<\/em> (1872)<\/td>\nEssays on various topics<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
N 80<\/td>\nEin Skizzenbuch von Beethoven aus dem Jahre 1803 <\/em>(1880)<\/td>\nOn Landsberg 6 (\u201cEroica\u201d sketchbook)<\/td>\ntranslated into English by Jonathan Katz, 1979 (See above, N 65)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
N II<\/td>\nZ<\/span>weite Beethoveniana<\/em> (1887)<\/td>\nNottebohm’ss major essays on sketchbooks and other topics<\/td>\nedited posthumously for publication by E. Mandycewski<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Many of N.\u2019s essays on sketchbooks appeared in periodicals prior to their publication in N II, and there are some differences in the transcriptions. See L. Lockwood, \u201cNottebohm Revisited,\u201d in J. Grubbs, ed., Current Thought in Musicology<\/em> (Austin, 1970), 139-92<\/p>\n

Two recent studies concerning Nottebohm are:
\nMarie Rivers Rule, The Allure of Bethoven’s :<\/em>Terzen-Ketten”: Third-Chains in Studies by Nottebohm and Music by Brahms<\/em>, PhD Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011.<\/p>\n

Marie Rivers Rule, “Tracking Trends in Beethoven’s Compositional Style: Manuscript Materials in Nottebohm’s<\/em> Nachlass,” Journal of Musicological Research<\/em> 32 (2013), 132-149.<\/p>\n

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