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When Beethoven began composing his Symphony No. 7, Napoleon was planning his campaign against Russia.After Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 (and possibly Symphony No. 5 as well), Symphony No. 7 seems to be another one of his musical confrontations with Napoleon, this time in the context of the European wars of liberation from years of Napoleonic domination.
Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven) in A major (Op. 92) by Ludwig van Beethoven, 1811–12 Symphony No. 7 (Bruckner) in E major (WAB 107) by Anton Bruckner, 1881–83 Symphony No. 7 (Davies) by Peter Maxwell Davies, 2000
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 following notable composers have written a Symphony No. 7 in A Major: Ludwig van Beethoven 's Symphony No. 7, Op. 92 (1811-2) Max Trapp Symphony No. 7, Op. 55
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.
The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, is a choral symphony, the final complete symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, composed between 1822 and 1824. It was first performed in Vienna on 7 May 1824. The symphony is regarded by many critics and musicologists as a masterpiece of Western classical music and one of the supreme achievements in the ...
Symphony No. 1 (Beethoven) Symphony No. 2 (Beethoven) Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven) Symphony No. 4 (Beethoven) Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven) Symphony No. 6 (Beethoven) Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven) Symphony No. 8 (Beethoven) Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) Symphony No. 10 (Beethoven/Cooper)
The Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, also known as the Pastoral Symphony (German: Pastorale [1]), is a symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven and completed in 1808. One of Beethoven's few works containing explicitly programmatic content, [2] the symphony was first performed alongside his fifth symphony in the Theater an der Wien on 22 December 1808 in a four-hour concert.