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2 days ago · 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.
May 17, 2024 · Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major. Excerpt from Violin Concerto in D Major, Opus 61, by Ludwig van Beethoven, with a pianist playing the orchestra's part. (more) Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770, Bonn, archbishopric of Cologne [Germany]—died March 26, 1827, Vienna, Austria) was a German composer, the predominant ...
- Beethoven is widely regarded as the greatest composer who ever lived, in no small part because of his ability—unlike any before him—to translate fe...
- Beethoven was born into a musical family. His father tried to make him into a child prodigy, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but did not succeed. Bee...
- Beethoven composed music in the transitional period between the Classical and the Romantic eras, and his work has been divided into (roughly) three...
- Beethoven was not born deaf, but he gradually became deaf. Although his deafness did not become total until 1819, the first symptoms of the impairm...
- Beethoven was an innovator of musical form. He widened the scope of the symphony, the sonata, the concerto, and the quartet and in so doing broke m...
May 10, 2024 · While he was born in Bonn in 1770, Beethoven spent most of his life in Vienna after moving to the Austrian capital as a 22-year-old By AFPRelaxnews Published: May 10, 2024 11:00:31 AM IST
May 21, 2024 · As I wrote then, Beethoven was definitely above average, but “to say he was anything more is to dismiss 99.9% of the world’s music written 200 years ago, which would be unscholarly, and ...
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May 12, 2024 · Excerpt from the fourth movement, “Finale,” of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Opus 125 (Choral); from a 1953 recording by the Westminster Choir and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 was ultimately more than three decades in the making. Schiller’s popular “Ode to Joy ...
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The final chorus of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, including "Ode to Joy," is on display at the Beethovenhaus Museum, where Beethoven spent some of his summers and ...
