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It’s quite remarkable indeed how legible Bach’s hand is. Compare that to Beethoven’s horrific scrawl e.g.[1] Small wonder his correspondence is filled with figh

• perihelions 3y ago
  That's also because he's just violently unconventional with chromaticism. There's places in late Beethoven where Urtext editors aren't sure what a specific note/accidental was intended to be: they show possibilities option A and option B (from two sources – one of which was a misprint), and even having both, the editors are undecided which one was actually the mistake. And if you study the music very carefully and think for a long time, you won't be sure either.