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5 days ago · The "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is the official "Anthem of Europe." It's an anthem with a long history. Using the language of music, it stands for stated European values like ...
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5 days ago · Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770, Bonn, archbishopric of Cologne [Germany]—died March 26, 1827, Vienna, Austria) was a German composer, the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. Widely regarded as the greatest composer who ever lived, Ludwig van Beethoven dominates a ...
- 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...
5 days ago · This is the fourth time Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, famous for its finale Ode To Joy, has topped the Classic 100 countdown. It's an extraordinary feat for a symphony that premiered in ...
2 days ago · Ludwig van Beethoven (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.
5 days ago · 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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4 days ago · Beethoven ate pike fish, plates of an Austrian version of mac and cheese called kasnocken, and a specific combination of raw eggs and bread soup. Though the composer hired housekeepers, he largely ...
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4 days ago · Answer: False. Beethoven's biographers characterize Johann van Beethoven as being a tyrannical, alcoholic and violent man who forced the young Beethoven to study the piano at age four. 4. Though contemporaries, Mozart (1756-1791) and Beethoven (1770-1827) never crossed paths. Answer: It is unclear whether they ever met.
