overtura

Updated: January 28, 2026

It bore no date, and on a violin part Beethoven had written first "Overtura, Violino Imo." Later he had added words in red crayon to make it read, "Overtura in C, charakteristische Overture, Violino Imo."

Henry Edward Krehbiel - A Book of Operas : Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music