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will-132
Does anyone know any museums or pictures on the web, of the original scores by beethoven, that he actualy saw and agreed with tongue.gif

I bet how they're written is beuatiful, like calligraphy.
purple viola
There are images of some pages of Beethoven's autograph manuscripts at the Beethoven-Haus digital archives. There is an example here.
Maizie
The British Library have some mauscripts you can look at online: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/music.html
There's a bit of Beethoven there...

They also have a permanent gallery where you can look at special things, that has a music section - you can see the list here: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/whatson/exh...blat/music.html
I just remember being delighted that on one of the auographs (either Bach or Handel, I don't remember which), they were about as good at drawing semiquavers as me biggrin.gif
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