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Conrad Graf, Echtheitsbestätigung für den Flügel Ludwig van Beethovens, Wien, 26. Juni 1849, Autograph

Beethoven-Haus Bonn, BH 177

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Transcription: "Unterzeichneter bestätigt hiermit, / das das Fortepiano ist welches die / Frau von Widmann geborene Wimmer / besizt, welches ich einige Jahre / vor dem Tode dem Bethoven Eigens / Verfertigte, und Ihm zu seinem / Vergnügen stelt, nach seinem Tode / es wieder zurück nahm, und an / die Familie Wimmer verkaufte. / Wien den 26=ten Juny [1]849 / Conrad Graf mp / k. k. Hof Claviermacher"

("The signatory acknowledges herewith that the fortepiano is the one which Frau von Widmann, née Wimmer, owns, which I made for Beethoven several years before his death and lent to him. It was returned to me on his death and I sold it the Wimmer family. Vienna 26 June 1849, Conrad Graf mp, k. k. royal piano maker.")

In January 1826 Beethoven had given his Broadwood grand piano to the piano maker Conrad Graf to be repaired. On 24 January 1826 he had been lent a replacement with 6 1/2 octaves by Graf. Following Beethoven's death the piano was returned to Graf.

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