Sonatas - Book 1: Schirmer Library of Classics Vol. 1 (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics, 1) Paperback – 1 Nov. 1986

Just what I wanted! Delivered as promised

Lovely quality edition on good heavy paper that survives a quick page turn, and the footnotes are well thought out and helpful.

Bought this to replace my old copy which was in a bad way. I can enjoy playing my favourites again.

After purchasing the Dover publication a few years ago (of Beethoven's Sonatas Book 1), I was disappointed with the printing and binding quality, as well as the poor editing by Heinrich Schenker. I was very pleased however when I received these Schirmer editions, edited by Dr. Hans von Bulow and Dr. Sigmund Lebert. The paper used and printing is of much better quality, and similarly the editing (although not everything may be accurate for present day, modern performance) is much more respectful to the works and helpful for the pianist; with more accurate articulation, pedal markings, fingering, ossia staffs and appendix information given at the bottom of many pages to give the pianist a fuller understanding in learning and playing the pieces. The binding seems of better quality and held relatively strong to the spine, but I have not had the book for very long, so (like with many large music books) that may be my only concern with this publication in the future.Overall, I would highly recommend these Schirmer publications over many others (for around the same price), for any pianist wishing to learn Beethoven's Piano Sonatas to performing standard.

Big book of music, heavy to carry around, but a good quality book with all Beethoven's sonatas together. Easy to read.

Damaged back page and front page dirty but at least the music is in tact

I LOVE the Beethoven sonatas, and as my dilapidated old edition seemed at least 100 years old and was held together by a tiny piece of thread, it seemed time to get a new one! However, as I have been only focusing on the Pathetique, always opening the book to those pages has caused them to also be held on only by one strand, so I'm not really much better off (my old edition also has way more character). But for the price you get a lot of music, and I think that everyone who plays piano should learn Beethoven!!! :-)