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Ludwig van Beethoven

25 Scottish Songs

25 Scottish Songs (or in full Twenty-five Scottish songs: for voice, mixed chorus, violin, violoncello and piano) (Opus 108) is a classical musical arrangement written from 1814 onward by German

  • Beethoven manuscript: draft for the disposition of the Scottish songs op. 108, Autograph. From the Digital Archives of Beethoven-Haus, Bonn. After the first edition, published in England in 1818, Beethoven prepared a German edition. On this manuscript we see Beethoven’s reordering and renumbering of the songs for the German edition, published by Schlesinger in Berlin in 1822.
    • Program notes for a performance of a selection from the Twenty-Five Scottish Songs (Op. 108).
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Ludwig van Beethoven