Sonata No. 8 (“Pathetique”) is published with the edition of the critic, composer and teacher Christian Luis Heinrich Köhler (1820–1886).
Köhler got his piano education in Vienna under the guidance of K. Czerny, disciple of Beethoven himself. Carrying on the activity of the music school director in Königsberg, he was recognized as the distinguished and most popular piano teacher, being also the author of critical and methodic articles, so as the editor of F. Schubert, L. van Beethoven, C. M. von Weber.