Better score for Beethoven Op2 #1

[terminal]

I am just starting to work on Beethoven Sonata #1 and I am working from Schirmers score of it, is there a better score available, the Schirmers is ok but I would like to know if there something more recommended (bigger type maybe or just less compressed).

Thanks.

[BoliverAllmon]

I am just starting to work on Beethoven Sonata #1 and I am working from Schirmers score of it, is there a better score available, the Schirmers is ok but I would like to know if there something more recommended (bigger type maybe or just less compressed).

Thanks.

Urtext is pretty large print.

[paris]

agree, i trust to wiener urtext edition 

my teacher call it 'red Bible' ... 

[Kassaa]

Henle's pretty good too.

[Rach3]

Dover is extremely reliable and dirt-cheap. Also, very readable notes with wide measures. It is not Urtext. But it has fewer errata than some popular Urtexts I will not name.

-Rach3

[quantum]

The only people I would recomend the Schirmer edition are professionals or university students wishing ADDITIONAL insight into the sonatas.  I would not recomend it as a primary resource to the Sonatas. 

There are many subjective comments in that edition, as well as there is not enough distinction between editorial insertions and Beethovens actual marks.  This may well lead the uninformed to believe that Beethoven actually created all those indications. 


I use the Edition Peters (urtext) edited by Arrau.  Excellent layout and print with good room for fingerings and pencil notes. 

Henle's is also widely available and quite respectable. 

[sonatainfsharp]

I strongly prefer Henle, but that is only an opinion, of course.