Ludwig van Beethoven, sketches for op.18 n" 2 string quartet

The analysis of the manuscript was carried out in collaboration with Dr. Brandenburg of the Beethoven Haus (Beethoven Archiv).
It is a sheet of a sketchbook from the summer of 1800, torn after the composer's death. On the staves notes for the second and fourth movement of the string quartet opera 18 n ° 2 are noted. The annotations "Adagio" and "Finale G quartett" are not autographed but most probably by Anton Graeffer. The comparison with the notes for the same works published in “Ludwig Van Beethoven, a sketchbook from the summer of 1800”, published in Bonn in 1996 by Richard Kramer under the aegis of the Beethoven Haus, is very illuminating.
In these manuscripts (kept in: Dreesman collection, Stockolm: Dtiftelsen Musikkulturens främjande, New York: Public library) we note the same pencil notes by Graeffer and an intense compositional work by the author, in our manuscript above all focused on the second movement (section Allegro after the Adagio cantabile), to which almost all the notes on one side of the paper are dedicated.