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"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 ...
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228 works are designated WoO (Werke ohne Opuszahl – literally, "works without opus number"), among them unpublished early and occasional works (Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II, WoO 87), published variations and folksong arrangements (25 Irish Songs, WoO 152 ...
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.
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.
The Piano Trio in B-flat major, Op. 97, by Ludwig van Beethoven is a piano trio completed in 1811. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is commonly referred to as the Archduke Trio , because it was dedicated to Archduke Rudolph of Austria , the youngest of twelve children of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor . [ 2 ]
The other two are opus 74 and opus 95. Many quartets record all five as a set. Beethoven uses a characteristically Russian theme in the first two quartets in honour of the prince who gave him the commission: In Op. 59 No. 1, the "Thème russe" (as the score is marked) is the principal theme of the last movement.
Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Natural Horn Sonata in F major, Op. 17 in 1800 for the virtuoso horn player Giovanni Punto.It was premiered with Punto as the soloist, accompanied on the piano by Beethoven himself in Vienna on April 18, 1800.
Egmont, Op. 84 by Ludwig van Beethoven, is a set of incidental music pieces for the 1787 play of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. [1] It consists of an overture followed by a sequence of nine pieces for soprano, male narrator, and full symphony orchestra.