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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.
Beethoven as portrayed by August von Kloeber in 1818. In 1820, when Beethoven wrote "Abendlied", he was 49 years old. 1820 was a year in which the sorrows of his life (deafness, illness, failure to find a marriage partner) [a] were augmented by the climactic phase of his legal confrontation with his sister-in-law Johanna van Beethoven over custody of his nephew (Johanna's son) Karl.
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.
Most of Beethoven's best known works were published with opus numbers, with which they may be reliably identified.Another 228 works are designated WoO (Werke ohne Opuszahl – literally, "works without opus number"), among them unpublished early and occasional works (Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II, WoO 87), published variations and folksong arrangements (25 Irish Songs, WoO 152 ...
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[1] His friend drew staves on the back of a menu, and, as it came to his head, Schubert spontaneously wrote melodies to the words he was reading in the play. [ 1 ] The handwritten score was originally entitled "Gesang" and appeared within a small booklet labeled Währing, July 1826 ( Währing was a town outside of Vienna where Schubert stayed ...
Unlike the Schubert–Müller song cycles, the six songs or episodes of An die ferne Geliebte do not form a chronological narrative leading towards a conclusion. Beethoven himself called it Liederkreis an die ferne Geliebte, i.e. a circle or ring of song, and it is so written that the theme of the first song reappears as the conclusion of the last, forming a 'circle' (Kreis) – a ring in the ...
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 ...