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Grove's Dictionary of music and musicians, 1910
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1Our illustration is from an instrument formerly in the possession of Carl Engel.
3Beethoven's friend Krumpholz was a virtuoso on the Mandoline, and this probably explains the fact of Beethoven's having written a piece for the instrument (Thayer, ii. 49). The autograph is to be found in the volume of MS. sketches and fragments preserved in the British Museum, Add. MS. 29,801. Though entitled 'Sonatina per il Mandolina (sic). Composta da L. v. Beethoven,' it is only in one movement, and was probably printed for the first time in the first edition of this Dictionary. Together with an adagio in E flat for mandoline and harpsichord, it is contained in the supplementary volume of Beethoven's works in Breitkopf & Härtel's complete edition. It will be observed that the phrase with which the Trio (C major) begins is the same which Beethoven afterwards used in the Allegretto of op. 14, No. 1.
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