Chris Bonds wrote: >I received a rare book catalog today offering a bound 1st edition of >Beethoven's 5th Symphony. Asking price $8800. Seems a bit high. Anyone >out there collect stuff like that? Wasn't it the first edition that misread >the repeats in the scherzo, which supposedly was to have been of the >double-trio type? It wasn't misread, but Beethoven changed his mind after the printing was done. I used to have a score that had the first and second endings, with somebody's red pencil xxx-ing out the repeat. Beethoven was generally so form-conscious that this seems to be a rare decision of his to, in this one case, concentrate on drama over form. Bill S