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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.
Beethoven replied on 25 January 1823 with his price of 50 ducats for each opus. [4] He composed the quartets in the sequence 12, 15, 13, 14, 16, writing 13 and 15 simultaneously. [5] Beethoven wrote these last quartets in failing health. In April 1825, he was bedridden and remained ill for about a month.
Immortal Beloved is a 1994 biographical film written and directed by Bernard Rose and starring Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini and Johanna ter Steege.The film narrates the life of composer Ludwig van Beethoven (played by Oldman) in flashbacks while it follows Beethoven's secretary and first biographer Anton Schindler's (Krabbé) quest to ascertain the true identity of the ...
In his 1840 biography of Beethoven, Schindler named Julie ("Giulietta") Guicciardi as the "Immortal Beloved". [14] [g] But research by Tellenbach (1983) indicated that her cousin Franz von Brunsvik may have suggested Giulietta to Schindler, to distract any suspicion away from his sister Josephine Brunsvik, with whom Beethoven had been hopelessly in love from 1799 to ca. 1809/1810. [15]
The work was completed by Thayer's German colleague Hermann Deiters and, after Deiters's death, by Hugo Riemann, who produced volumes 4 (1907) and 5 (1908) from Thayer's notes, covering Beethoven's life from 1817 to his death in 1827. Thayer's work on Beethoven set a benchmark for modern standards of accuracy, research, and analysis in biography.
— Henri Murger, French author of Scenes of Bohemian Life (28 January 1861) "No, Your Majesty, to-morrow you will not see me here." [7]: 31 — Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Italian statesman, Prime Minister of Italy (6 June 1861), to Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, who had said he would see him tomorrow "While there is life there is will."
As his friend Franz Gerhard Wegeler later remembered, Beethoven's composition of love songs coincided with a time that he himself was frequently in love: . In Vienna, at least for as long as I lived there, Beethoven was still engaged in romantic relationships, and at that time he had made conquests which would have been very difficult, if not impossible, for more than one Adonis.
Beethoven suffered declining health throughout the last years of his life, including the so-called "Late period" when he produced some of his most admired work. The last work he was able to complete was the substitute final movement of the String Quartet No. 13, Op. 130 , composed to replace the difficult Große Fuge , which was published ...