Beethoven around 1800

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Jacobson, Bernhard.   Beethoven:  Die Streichquartette.  EMI Beethoven The Complete String Quartets. Die Sämtlichen Streichquartette. Les Quatuors a Cordes. Alban Berg Quartett. (1999)

Kinderman, William. Beethoven. Oxford + New York: 1997. Oxford University Press.

Kropfinger, Klaus. Beethoven. Kassel; Basel; London; New York; Prag; Stuttgart; Weimar: 2001. Bärenreiter Metzler MGGprisma.

Lockwood, Lewis. Beethoven - The Music and the Life. New York: 2002. Norton & Company.

Ludwig van Beethoven. Briefwechsel Gesamtausgabe. [6 Bände] Im Auftrag des Beethoven-Hauses Bonn herausgegeben von Sieghard Brandenburg. München: 1996. G. Henle Verlag.

Solomon, Maynard. Beethoven. New York: 1979. Schirmer Books, Paperback Edition.

Thayer's Life of Beethoven, edited by Elliott Forbes. Princeton: 1964.  New Jersey Princeton University Press.