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Beethoven Sources will collect sketches, autograph scores, corrected copies, first editions and other primary sources of Beethoven's music – from libraries worldwide.

The catalogue serves two main purposes:

to index musical sources created, supervised or approved by Beethoven himself;

to give a single, easy-to-use access point to different collections of those sources.

Currently, the catalogue is in a prototype phase: it will be progressively expanded and updated. The first phase will cover the body of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas.

Beethoven Sources is a non-profit project released under a creative commons license. It is developed by the IT company Variance srl and an editorial board lead by Gabriele Riccobono.

Igor Cognolato (Conservatorio "Benedetto Marcello", Venice)

Mizuho Furukubo (Treviso)

Giuseppe Mariotti (Tokushima Bunri University, Japan)

Rinaldo Nani (Variance srl, Milan)

Gabriele Riccobono (Milan)

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