This musical score is a piano-vocal score of the third version (Op. 72) of Ludwig van Beethoven's opera Fidelio. Libretto by J.F. Sonnenleithner [sic], based on N. [sic] Bouilly's Lénore [sic], ou, L'amour conjugal. Piano reduction by Ignaz Moscheles.

Price on title page: 10 f Ö.W. Leaf bearing the dedication: "Seiner Kaiserlichen Hoheit Dem durchlauchtigsten Erzherzog Rudolph von Oesterreich etc. etc. ehrfurchtsvoll gewidmet vom Verfasser." 

Each musical number paginated separately; some are not paginated. No. of pages per plate no.: 8, 10, 5, 5, 5, 15, 1, 8, 8, 8, 35, 8, 8, 9, 13, 7, 36 pages. Includes the overture (p. 1-8, plate number 2327). Includes 2 handwritten pages (inserted after page 2 of plate 2340) which contain Rocco's part from the trio.

For more information on this printing of Fidelio, see Kinsky, Georg. Das Werk Beethovens ... München, G. Henle [1955]; Löwenberg. Annals of opera.