Overture on the notes B-A-C-H - on sketches by L.v.Beethoven (1822-25)

In the years roughly around the composition of the 9th symphony Beethoven wrote several sketches on the notes B-A-C-H for an orchestral overture ("H" here the German letter for the note "B" ). On the request of Armando Orlandi from www.lvbeethoven.it I tried to develop these (together with own themes) with greatest pleasure and fascination to an overture (as I have done it with several other unfinished works by Beethoven before, see my YT channel).

In the score I marked those notes which are taken from these Beethoven sketches with yellow (plus m. 5, 17-19 and 45, which I missed to mark). Some of the facsimili of the sketches in JPEG are included in the score in the video.

I used up to 10 different variations of these fascinating 4 B-A-C-H notes.

The recording was done with Noteperformer.com