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Willy Hess (12 October 1906 – 9 May 1997) was a Swiss musicologist, composer, and famous Beethoven scholar. He achieved fame after compiling and publishing a catalogue of works of Beethoven that were not listed in the "complete" edition .
The Swiss composer and musicologist Willy Hess also researched and published a catalogue in the 1950s, in which he included pieces not included in the 19th century complete edition published by Breitkopf and Härtel.
In 1957 Willy Hess, Swiss musicologist and composer, completed this work, publishing the ones that were not included in the original version. The Hess catalogue contains 335 entries and 66 doubtful works.
Works are identified by the catalogue of Willy Hess (Verzeichnis der nicht in der Gesamtausgabe veröffentlichen Werke Ludwig van Beethovens; Breitkopf & Härtel, 1957).
May 18, 2020 · In 1957 the extremely industrious Beethoven scholar Willy Hess presented a Verzeichnis der nicht in der Gesamtausgabe veröffentlichten Werke Ludwig van Beethovens [list of 335 (!) works by Ludwig van Beethoven not published in the AGA]; this served as the basis of his altogether 14 supplementary AGA volumes, which he published with Breitkopf ...
These were assigned by Willy Hess in a listing published shortly after Kinsky's which includes pieces not included in the 19th century Beethoven Gesamtausgabe published by Breitkopf und Härtel. Hess includes many more fragmentary works than does Kinsky.
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Hess: At about the same time as Kinsky and Halm were compiling their catalog, Willy Hess was independently making his own catalog of pieces which are not in the Gesamtausgabe (or GA), the collected works as published by Breitkopf & Haertel 1862-1865.
