La Mara.—Musikerbriefe aus funf Jahrhunderten. Leipzig, 1892.
Dr. A. Christian Kalischer.—Neue Beethoven, Briefe. Berlin and Leipzig, 1902.
Dr. A. Christian Kalischer.—Beethovens Sämmtliche Briefe. Kritische Ausgabe mit Erlauterungen, 5 vol. Leipzig and Berlin, 1906-1908.
Dr. Fritz Prelinger.—Beethovens Sämmtliche Briefe und Aufzeichnungen, 3 vols. Vienna and Leipzig, 1907.
By far the most useful books for the English reader, and, indeed, for any reader, are the two splendid volumes of Beethoven's Letters. A critical edition with explanatory notes translated from Kalischer by J. S. Shedlock. (London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1909).
The translation of the letters contained in this present volume have been taken from that work by kind permission of the author and the publishers.
A good selection from these letters, issued in one volume at a moderate price, would be a great boon to English readers.
