Las Sonatas para piano de Beethoven a través de los trabajos de edición de Agnes Zimmermann

The Piano Sonatas are, as a whole, one of the works of Ludwig van Beethoven most performed throughout history, both in public and in the school environment, but also one of those that have enjoyed a high number of editions by pianists and scholars from different countries. In accordance with this circumstance, in this work we present the edition by the British pianist and composer Agnes Zimmermann (1847-1925), one of the most famous women musicians of her time who, in addition, maintained a close contact with the Beethovenian legacy throughout her career. Specifically, through primary and secondary sources, we propose an approach to the figure of this exceptional female and a study on the particularities of her edition work on Beethoven’s Sonatas, published by Novello, Ewer & Co. in 1873 and whose reprint, revised, took place in 1880.