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  2. Ludwig van Beethoven - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Fidelio - Wikipedia

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    Fidelio (/ f ɪ ˈ d eɪ l j oʊ /; [1] German: [fiˈdeːlio]), originally titled Leonore, oder Der Triumph der ehelichen Liebe (Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love), [2] Op. 72, is the sole opera by German composer Ludwig van Beethoven. The libretto was originally prepared by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly.

  5. Beethoven's musical style - Wikipedia

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    Ludwig van Beethoven. Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most influential figures in the history of classical music.Since his lifetime, when he was "universally accepted as the greatest living composer", Beethoven's music has remained among the most performed, discussed and reviewed in the Western world. [1]

  6. Beethoven's compositional method - Wikipedia

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    Beethoven's portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1820. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) was a German composer in the transition between the classical and romantic period. He composed in many different forms including nine symphonies, five piano concertos, and a violin concerto. [1] Beethoven's method of composition has long been debated among ...

  7. String trio - Wikipedia

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    Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) Prelude and Fugue for two violins and cello in E minor, Hess 29 (1795) Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805) String Trios, G 77–94, 101 ...

  8. Unfinished symphony - Wikipedia

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    Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony in C minor (Hess 298) was sketched around 1791–93, leaving a small fragment of the first movement before being abandoned. [1] In addition, musicologist and Beethoven specialist Barry Cooper has identified several attempts and sketches of projected symphonies before Beethoven finished his Symphony No. 1 in C ...

  9. The Ruins of Athens - Wikipedia

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    The Ruins of Athens (Die Ruinen von Athen), Op. 113, is a set of incidental music pieces written in 1811 by Ludwig van Beethoven.The music was written to accompany the play of the same name by August von Kotzebue, for the dedication of the new Deutsches Theater Pest [] in Pest, Hungary.