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1 day ago · Title page of Beethoven's symphonies from the Gesamtausgabe. The list of compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven consists of 722 works 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.
3 days ago · Franz Liszt, after a painting of 1856, by Wilhelm von Kaulbach. Hungarian Romantic composer Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was especially prolific, composing more than 700 works. A virtuoso pianist himself, much of his output is dedicated to solo works for the instrument and is particularly technically demanding.
3 days ago · Beethoven's status was confirmed by the series of Concerts sprituels given in Vienna by the choirmaster Franz Xaver Gebauer in the 1819/1820 and 1820/1821 seasons, during which all eight of his symphonies to date, plus the oratorio Christus and the Mass in C, were performed. Beethoven was typically underwhelmed: when in an April 1820 ...
- 17 December 1770
- 26 March 1827 (aged 56), Vienna
3 days ago · Testimony from student Emily Cohen, Tri-M® chapter 2605 at Great Neck North High School, class of 2019. Every year, the halls of Great Neck North High are filled with the sounds of Beethoven’s Symphonies coming from room 218. High schoolers work hard to learn their parts and study the rhythms for these nine beautiful symphonies.
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3 days ago · Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony premiered in Vienna in May 1824. Two centuries later, it remains a powerful and enduring work. “Sing that song from Germany,” my cousins would say to me over the phone when I was a little boy of four, just arrived in Goa with my family from what was then West Germany in 1970. The “song” was the ‘Ode to Joy’ in the original German from Beethoven’s ...
2 days ago · Banker Baron Eskeles sends Beethoven a note asking for 6 tickets to the concert Sunday. His daughter Marie (1801-1862) sends her thanks for the kind things Ludwig wrote in her autograph book. [He wrote the canon “Der edle Mensch sei hülfreich und gut,” WoO 151 on January 20, 1823 for her, which was quite kind indeed.] The Baron invites ...
6 days ago · The Liszts traveled to Vienna, where Franz made his public debut at a concert in 1811- at the age of 11. While studying in Vienna, Franz received lessons from Carl Czerny and Antonio Salieri, and is reported to have received praise from Beethoven himself. MUSICAL CAREER
