beethoven

     

Luwig van Beethoven (English IPA: /ˈlʊdvɪg væn ˈbeɪtoʊvən/; German IPA: [ˈluːtvɪç fan ˈbeːthoːfn], December 16, 1770 – March 26, 1827) was a German composer and virtuoso pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music, and remains one of the most respected and influential composers of all time.

Trivia about beethoven

  • Chuck Berry told this composer to "Roll Over" & "Tell Tchaikovsky the News"
  • At age 33 in 1804, he started a new symphony, his 5th, with a Da-Da-Da-Duh
  • His "Eroica" symphony was dedicated to his patron Prince Lobkowitz, not Napoleon as first intended
  • In 1812 he completed his 7th & 8th Symphonies & wrote a letter in which he asked, "Can our love endure..."
  • He dedicated his "Moonlight Sonata" to the countess Giulietta Guicciardi
  • In his most recent film, this St. Bernard has a girlfriend named Missy & 4 puppies
  • His last words reportedly were "I shall hear in heaven"
  • He dedicated his ninth symphony to the King of Prussia
  • With the familiar 4-note opener, his Fifth Symphony has been called "the most popular orchestral work ever written"
  • Franz Liszt always claimed that this great German composer saw him perform as a child & kissed him on the forehead
  • The Best Chamber Music Performance was this German's sonatas with Lambert Orkis, not Schroeder, on piano
  • Joseph Karl Stieler's early 19th-century portrait of this man captures his energy & ferocity
  • This German composer, no slouch himself, said that Handel was "the greatest composer who ever lived"
  • He died in Vienna March 26, 1827, during a thunderstorm like the one depicted in his Pastoral Symphony
  • Composed around 1808, his Fifth Symphony was one of the first symphonic works to use the trombone
  • In 1977, his "Immortal Beloved" was identified as Antonie Brentano, wife of a merchant
  • Hughes co-wrote the screenplay for this 1992 movie about a slobbering St. Bernard
  • His "Heroic" Period, from about 1803 to 1812, produced his "Eroica" Symphony
  • His Fifth Symphony was the first major symphonic work to use the trombone
  • The opening 4-note theme of his fifth symphony has been likened to fate knocking at the door
  • As published, his "Eroica" symphony was dedicated to his patron Prince Lobkowitz
  • The first track on "The Beatles' Second Album" was a Chuck Berry song that told this composer to "roll over"
  • The Hotel Sacher in Vienna was built on the site of the theater where his Ninth Symphony premiered in 1824
  • His Sixth Symphony was termed the "Pastoral"
  • For several years, his friend Karl Amenda was one of the few people who knew about his increasing deafness
  • 1994:"Immortal Beloved"
  • "All creatures drink of joy at nature's breast" is from a verse used in an 1824 symphony by this man
  • In the early 1790s Haydn stopped in Bonn, Germany & met this young musical genius who would become Haydn's pupil
  • Robert Schumann died age 46 in an asylum near Bonn, the city where this musical titan was born in 1770
  • His "Moonlight" sonata was dedicated to Giuletta Guicciardi with whom he was romantically involved
  • The curse of the 9th says that anyone who writes a 9th symphony will die soon after, as did this "Eroica" composer
  • He's the composer whose work is heard here
  • This composer's symphony that glorified the ideal of human brotherhood is re-imagined here
  • He originally dedicated his third symphony to Napoleon
  • A composer, 1827:"I shall hear in heaven"
  • "Ode to Joy" is the choral piece at the core of his "Choral" Symphony
  • One of the few houses left from the early 18th century in Bonn is the 1770 birthplace of this composer
  • Thriving through success, like him conducting "Ode to Joy" while ill, is the idea in a book called "The" him "Factor"
  • "Immortal Beloved"
  • A German composer: "Music should strike fire from the heart of man and bring tears from the eyes of a woman"
  • Many think that Josephine von Brunswick was the recipient of his "Immortal Beloved" letter
  • Time now for the KJPY clue of the day: born in 1770, he called himself Bacchus, pressing out the wine of musical revelation
  • This great German composer of "Fur Elise" was born in Bonn in 1770
  • When his brother Kaspar died in 1815, he became co-guardian of Kaspar's 9-year-old son Karl
  • In 1806, when a patron suggested he tickle the ivories for visiting French officers, he stormed out
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew strolls through the Mozart House in Vienna, Austria.) In 1787 Mozart gave music lessons in this house to a teenager from Bonn, Germany, who would become world-famous as this composer
  • 1802:What's that you say? I said, whatcha composin'? Oh, the "Kreutzer" sonata
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew listens to a string quartet at the Juilliard School in New York.) The students are playing his great fugue of the 1820s, which was so revolutionary, the publisher begged him to replace it; uncharacteristically, he agreed
  • His symphonies include "Eroica", "Pastoral", & "Chorale"
  • Walter Murphy's "A Fifth Of" this guy paired classical music with a disco beat
  • His Third Symphony in E Flat Major is known as "Eroica"