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A nickname is a name that is not part of the title given by the composer, but has come to be popularly associated with the work, such as: Emperor, the nickname of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73; Jupiter, the nickname of Mozart's Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551.
Ludwig van Beethoven [n 1] (baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire and span the transition from the Classical period to the Romantic era in classical music.
Beethoven's Tenth: nickname first used by Hans von Bülow: 3: suggested to be called "Heroic", name rejected by Brahms Havergal Brian: 1: D minor: The Gothic: 1919-27: 4: C major: Das Siegeslied: The Song of Victory: 1932-33: 5: Wine of Summer: 1937: 6: Sinfonia Tragica: Tragic Symphony: 1947-48: 22: F minor: Symphonia Brevis: Short Symphony ...
Rellstab met Beethoven in 1825, [10] making it theoretically possible for Beethoven to have known of the moonlight comparison, though the nickname may not have arisen until later. By the late 1830s, the name "Mondscheinsonate" was being used in German publications [11] and "Moonlight Sonata" in English [12] publications. Later in the nineteenth ...
Title page of Beethoven's symphonies from the Gesamtausgabe. The list of compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven consists of 722 works [1] written over forty-five years, from his earliest work in 1782 (variations for piano on a march by Ernst Christoph Dressler) when he was only eleven years old and still in Bonn, until his last work just before his death in Vienna in 1827.
"Kakadu [a] Variations" is the nickname given to Ludwig van Beethoven's set of variations for piano trio on the theme "Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu" by Wenzel Müller. The Variations was published in 1824 as Opus 121a, the last of Beethoven's piano trios to be published. The work is notable for the contrast between its solemn introduction and ...
When Beethoven began composing his Symphony No. 7, Napoleon was planning his campaign against Russia.After Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 (and possibly Symphony No. 5 as well), Symphony No. 7 seems to be another one of his musical confrontations with Napoleon, this time in the context of the European wars of liberation from years of Napoleonic domination.
Gareth Jenkins said Beethoven was "doing for music what Napoleon was doing for society – turning tradition upside down" and embodied the "sense of human potential and freedom" of the French Revolution, in Beethoven's Cry of Freedom (2003). [43] BBC Music Magazine called it the greatest symphony, based on a survey of 151 conductors in 2016. [44]