Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music. His works span the transition from the classical period to the romantic era in classical music.
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Ludwig van Beethoven (17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music. His works span the transition from the classical period to the romantic era in classical music. He was almost completely deaf by 1814, and he then gave up performing and appearing in public. He described his problems with health and his unfulfilled personal life in two letters, his \”Heiligenstadt Testament\” to his brothers and his unsent love letter to an unknown \”Immortal Beloved\” His works remain mainstays of the classical music repertoire. There is no authentic record of the date of his birth, but the baptism registry of his baptism, in the Catholic Parish of St Remigius, Bonn, survives. He died in 1827 after some months of bedridden illness, and his works are now displayed in the Bonn House Museum, 20strasse 20, in what is now Bonn. His only opera, Fidelio, which had been first performed in 1805, was revised to its final version in 1814. He composed his Missa Solemnis in the years 1819–1823, and his final, Ninth, Symphony in 1822–1824. The portrait he commissioned of himself towards the end of his life remained displayed in his rooms as a talisman of his musical heritage. Ludwig had one son, who gave keyboard and violin lessons to his grandson Johann in 1767; she was the daughter of Heinrich Keverich, who had been the head chef at the court of the Archbishop of Trier.
He also had a daughter, Maria Magdalena, who was the wife of the chef at Trier, Heinrich Heinrich, and had a son, Johann, who worked as a violinist and keyboard teacher in Bonn at the time of his death. His last piano concerto, dedicated to his frequent patron Archduke Rudolf of Austria, was premiered in 1810, but not with beethoven as soloist. His first major orchestral work, the First Symphony, appeared in 1800, and the first set of string quartets was published in 1801. He published his first work, a set of keyboard variations, in 1783, under the tutelage of Christian Gottlob Neefe, under whom he published his three Opus 1 piano trios in 1795. His Violin Concerto appeared in 1806. He wrote many of his most admired works including his later symphonies and his mature chamber music and piano sonatas. He worked on a tenor keyboard solo in 1825–26, and gave a supplement to his keyboard work in 1826. His son Johann gave keyboard lessons and gave keyboard supplement in 1828, and in 1829, he wrote his first symphony, the Ninth Symphony, which was first played in 1824.
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