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The score was not published until 1867, forty years after the composer's death in 1827. The discoverer of the piece, Ludwig Nohl, affirmed that the original autograph manuscript, now lost, had the title: "Für Elise am 27 April [1810] zur Erinnerung von L. v. Bthvn" ("For Elise on April 27 in memory by L. v. Bthvn"). [4]
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.
Portrait of Nikolaus Johann van Beethoven, the composer's younger brother and dedicatee of the six bagatelles, c. 1841 by an unknown artist.. A bagatelle, in Beethoven's usage, is a kind of brief character piece.
In the spring of 1802, Beethoven followed the advice of his physician, Johann Adam Schmidt, and left Vienna for rural Heiligenstadt. Once there, he fell into despair over his deteriorating hearing and wrote the famous Testament of 6 and 10 October. [5] He likely kept himself busy studying various musical and literary writings.
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Grove Music Online translates the Italian title Sonata quasi una fantasia as "sonata in the manner of a fantasy". [6] While we cannot know precisely why Beethoven used this description for the two Op. 27 sonatas, several explanations are available. [7]