PROJECT RIES

This project is aimed to produce user-friendly modern performing editions of Ferdinand Ries piano sonatas as well as other piano-related works. The sources used for typesetting the scores are as underlined below(if not, the title), and are the sole sources for these editions. Other editions and autograph sources are also shown as alternatives. I will be grateful if anyone can provide the other sources to make the edition more reliable. Duration estimated : 1 year.

OP.1 - Two Pianoforte Sonatas
Title page : Deux / SONATES / POUR LE / Piano-Forte, / Composees et dediees / A /
LOUIS VAN BEETHOVEN. / PAR / Son Eleve / FERDINAND RIES. /
Oeuvre 1me / PRIX 6 FRANCS. / A BONN chez N. SIMROCK. / Propriete
de l'Editeur. Enregistree a la Bibliotheque Imperiale. / 512.
Score locations : Bds Lbm Pn Skma We
Other located editions : Chappell (no. 1), 390, 1816, Lam
Autographs : 
1. 12 leaves; Head title: Sonate pour le Pianoforte composee par Ferdinand
Ries 1806 a Bonn Op.1, No.1; Bds (mus. ms. autogr., F. Ries, 134N)
2. 10 leaves; Head title: Sonate pour Ie Piano Forte composee par F. Ries
1804 Op.1, No.2; Bds (mus. ms. autogr, F. Ries, 135N)


OP. 5 - Two Pianoforte Sonatinas
Title pages: No.1  A / FIFTH SONATINA, / for the / Piano Forte. / Composed / By / FERD:
RIES / Ent. Sta. Hall. Pr. 3/- / London, / Published by Clementi & Co 26 Cheapside;
No.2  A / Sixth Sonatina, / for the / Piano Forte, / Composed / By / FERD: RIES. /
Ent. Sta. Hall. Pr. 3/- / London, / Published by Clementi & Co 26,Cheapside.
Score locations : No.1 Cu Lcm Ob Pn, ; No.2  Cu Lbm NYp Ob Pn;
Other located editions : No.1 Simrock, 2180, 1823, Bds Mbs Pn Sl We, 1st piece from Wernthal's Sonaten-Album für Pianoforte; No.2 Lisehke, 1705, 18251 , LEm; Simrock, 2181, 1823, Bds Mbs Pn Sl We. Andre (plate: 4995 and 4996)·published "Rondeaux favoris / pour / Piano-Forte/ tires des Sonates l'oeuvre 5 / .... " in 1827; copy: OF Uim (no. 2).
No autograph sources located.


OP. 9 - Two Pianoforte Sonatas
Title page : Deux grandes Sonates / pour Ie / Piano Forte / Composees et dediees a /ML LE COMTE MAURICE LICHNOWSKI. / par / FERD. RIES. / Oeuvre 9./ A BONN chez N. Simrock. / Propriete de l'Editeur. Deposee a la Bibliotheque imperiale. / 878.
Score locations : B Ckc LEm Pn Wn
Other located editions : Birchall (no. 1), - ,1813, Gu Lbrn Lcrn Ob Slana; Ricordi (no. 2),0.1289, W1828, Rsc Wgm
Autographs : 9 leaves; Head title: Sonate pour le Pianoforte composee par F. Ries 1808
Oeuvre 9 No. 1; the minuet is on the 8th and 9th leaves, which are oblong paper; Bds (mus. ms. autogr., F. Ries. 136N). No autograph source for the second sonata.


OP. 11 - Two Pianoforte Sonatas
Title page : DEUX GRANDES SONATES / pour Ie / Piano Forte, / Composees et dediees
/ a / Joseph Haydn / Maitre de Chapelle de S. A. Ie Prince Regnant d'Esterhazy, / par / FERD: RIBS / Prix 3 Fr: / Oeuv: 11 No. 15 / Bonn et Cologne chez N. Simrock
Score locations : B Ckc DHgm Lcm Skma
Other located editions : Mollo (no. 1), 1716, 1818, Me Wn; Richault, 304.R, Pn Wc;
Schonenberger (no. 1), 1244, c.1835, Mbs
No autograph sources located


OP. 26 - Pianoforte Sonata L'Infortunee
Title page : Grande' SONATE FANTAISIE , intitulee' L'Infortune , Composee par'
FERD. RIES. , Oeuvre 26. Prix 3 Fr: 50 Cs , A BONN chez N.Simrock. , Propriete de l'Editeur. Deposee a la Bibliotheque imperiale. , No.904.
Score locations : B LEm NYp Pn Wn Other located editions : Richault, 248.R, Pn Sl Wc; Troupenas(?) via IMSLP
No autograph sources located

OP. 45 - Pianoforte Sonata 
Title page : The / Thirty first / SONATA, / FOR THE / Piano Forte. / Composed by /
FERD: RIES. / Ent. Sta. Hall. OP. 45, Price 2/6 /
London, / Printed by Clementi & Co. 26, Cheapside, / Chappell & Co.No. 124,
New Bond Street. / & C. F. Peters, Leipsic.
Score locations : B Cu Gu Lbm Ob
Other located editions : Peters, 1306, 1817, B Ckc LEm Sl Wgm; Richault, 354.R, Wc; Ricordi, V.746, W1828, Mc Wgm
No autograph sources located

OP. 49 - The Dream for the Pianoforte
Title page : THE DREAM, / for the / Piano Forte, / COMPOSED / By / Ferd. Ries; /Member of the Royal Academy in Sweden. / Ent. Sta. Hall. OP. 49. Price 5s / London, Published by the Author, 4, Duke St, Portland Place. / And to be had at the Principal Music Shops.
Score locations : B Cke  Lbm Lem Ob
Other located editions : Richault, III.R,Wc; Simrock,1118, 1815, B Lcm Pn Sl Wgm
No autograph sources located


OP. 114 - Pianoforte Sonata 
Title page : 47me / SONATE / Pour le Pianoforte / composee & dediee / a Mademoiselle
H. Goldschmidt / par / FERD. RIES.I Oeuvre 114.Leipsic Propriete des Editeurs. I Chez Breitkopf & Hartel. I Pr. 12 Gr.
Score locations : A Bds NYp Pn Sl
Other located editions : Ricordi, 1638, W1828, Mc Rsc SI Wgm
No autograph sources located

OP. 141 - Pianoforte Sonata 
Title page : Quarante-neuvieme / GRANDE SONATE / pour Ie Piano Forte / COMPOSEE
ET DEDIEE / a Madame Amelie Schott, / nee Kirchhoffer de Vienne, / PAR /
FERD. RIES. / Op. 141.Prix: 7f 50c / A PARIS, / Chez ZETTER et
Compie Rue du Faubourg Poissonniere No. 3. / Propriete des Editeurs. 67.
Depose a la Direction.
Score locations : Wc
Other located editions : Nageli/Haslinger , (Z.67.) No.7, 1827, BEu Lcm Pn Sl We
No autograph sources located


OP. 176 - Pianoforte Sonata 
Title page : GRAND SONATE / (cinquante deuxieme) / pour le Pianoforte / composee et
dediee / a Madame / Simonis de Seroulle / par / FERD. RIES. / Membre de
l'Academie royale a Stockholm. / Original = Bibliothek. Heft 11 und 12 /
2ter Subscr.-Preis 1/2 Thlr. Propriete des editeurs. Laden-Preis 1 Thlr. /
Leipzig, Hamburg & Itzehoe, / Schuberth & Niemeyer. / In Warschau bei G.
Sennewald.
Score locations : B Bu Dlb Pn Wn
Autographs :12 leaves; Head title: 51 st Sonata for the Pianoforte composed by Ferd:
Ries /Rome 1832 / This Manuscript is presented to his estimable Friend the
Abate F. Santini / by the Author; Rsc (ms. A MS 144)


WoO 11 - Pianoforte Sonata 
Autographs :
7 leaves; Head title: Sonate pour Ie Piano Forte compose par Ferdinand

Ries a Munich 1805; Bds (mus. ms. autogr., F. Ries, 133N)
Note : I'm using a private copy for this sonata


Appendix for sources sh.