Beethoven's 10th Symphony
Music From The Notebooks Of Beethoven
(and a way you can work with
Beethoven's ideas for a 10th symphony)

Throughout his life Beethoven used many notebooks and sketchbooks to write down musical thoughts for pieces he was working on and for ideas that inspired him. Many of these ideas and fragments of music were either never completed or never published.

Beethoven's 9th Symphony that includes the world known "Ode To Joy", is course known across the world. What is not as widely known is that was working on ideas for a 10th Symphony and had made a few notation sketches for it in his music notebooks.

 

About the Music

We have taken his 4 rather short musical sketches and created pieces of music using Beethoven's musical thoughts... simple basic arrangements that you can use as a basis to experiment with these ideas and create your own versions and improvisations. The music notation is downloaded in PDF format.

One group of pieces is the 4 melodies Beethoven wrote in his notebooks, along with a simple keyboard (or harp) accompaniment and with guitar chords that you can use to develop your own pieces.

The second group of pieces takes Beethoven's 4 ideas and expands the music into simple canon/fugue and string quartet formats as examples of various ways these melodies can be used.

The 4 basic pieces included in this notation collection are named as Beethoven wrote the names in his notebook:
Andante
Scherzo Presto
Trio
Finale

We have created these various expanded versions:
Andante Canon
Finale Canon
Scherzo Presto Quartet
Scherzo Canon
(using the opening section of Beethoven's notation)
Trio Quartet 1
Trio Quartet 2
Trio Canon