1612278375000 1610448767000 Standard Record object-110007594 1747159787268 1621507081000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110007594 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110007594 c1649e56-fb12-338b-ade8-1a05f730f876 2 person reference agent-201788 adlib-agent-201788 393ed4c8-83a4-38e6-92a5-187c45eea068 Ries, Ferdinand content description As there was no copyright law at this time, Beethoven could augment the income from his compositions by publishing them in several countries simultaneously. This meant that each publisher needed a copy of the score to engrave from. Beethoven usually employed copyists for this purpose. In the case of the Hammerklavier Sonata he was unable to call on his regular copyists, with disastrous results: this document is part of an 11-page letter detailing 115 corrections needed in the London edition. Beethoven was so keen to publish the sonata there as well as in Vienna that he allowed Ries to choose among several alternative sequences of movements, including omitting some of them altogther. Gen/B/Beethoven/3 1 accession number Gen/B/Beethoven/3 110007594 priref 110007594 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110007594 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110007594 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1819 1819 1819-03-19 reference agent-156437 adlib-agent-156437 aa9532e5-54c1-3d79-bda2-15a8b0e1d614 Beethoven, Ludwig van Letter: Beethoven to Ferdinand Ries object OBJECT