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Certificate of authenticity for Beethoven's quill pen in the framed object in the Yvonne Hummel Collection (C_Hummel_001)
Certificate of authenticity for Beethoven's quill pen inscribed by Betty Hummel and certified by L. Walther of the Grand-ducal Saxon Court of Law in Weimar, Feb. 6, 1877.
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- 1877
- 1877-02-06
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- Date created
- 2023-01-31
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- islandora:19009
- C_Hummel_007a
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- Notes
- References: William Meredith, "New Acquisitions (Summer 2012): The Yvonne Hummel Collection," The Beethoven Journal vol. 27, no. 2 (Winter 2012), pp. 74-79.
- "Daß Beethoven, die hier unter Glas u. Rahmen befindliche Feder, womit er, drei Tage vor seinem Tode, die letzten Worte, deren er zu schreiben fähig war, "einen Dank für einen Korb Wein an den Musikhändler Schott in Mainz," mir bei einem Besuch, den ich ihm mit meinem seligen Mann, dem Hofkapellmeister Johann Nepomuk Hummel, machte, auf meiner Bitte eigenhändig geschenkt hat, bescheinigt hiermit. Betty Hummel." Translation: "Hereby is certified that Beethoven, upon my request, on the occasion of a visit which I, accompanied by my late husband, court conductor Johann Nepomuk Hummel, paid him, personally gave as a present to me the quill which is situated here behind glass and frame and with which, three days before his death, he wrote the last wof which he was capable, reportedly words of gratitude for a basket of wine that were addressed to the sheet music dealer Schott in Mainz. Betty Hummel."
- Rights Note
- This work is in the public domain and therefore the digital images attached to this catalog record may be used without permission for study and research purposes. Credit statements for these images should read “From the collections of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, San José State University.” For information on obtaining higher resolution reproductions and permission to publish, see the Beethoven Center's website https://www.sjsu.edu/beethoven/collection/library-materials/index.php
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