The Early Years
Who are the Habsburgs?
Who is Mozart?
Around 1799 Beethoven fell in love with this woman, Caeyers' frontrunner for the Immortal Beloved
Who is Josephine von Brunsvik?
In the second half of the 1810s, Beethoven’s productivity declined as he devoted increasing amounts of time to raising this nephew
Who is Karl?
In Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata, the titular work is written for piano and this instrument
What is violin?
Who is Joseph II?
This important showcase for Beethoven's piano virtuosity, despite its title, was actually the first he wrote
What is the second piano concerto?
One of Beethoven's best-known middle-period piano sonatas derives its nickname from this Shakespeare play
What is the Tempest?
The Ode to Joy is a poem by this important German Enlightenment poet
Who is Schiller?
The famous Beethoven scowl is most likely attributable to the expression on this important relic from his lifetime
What is the life mask?
Who is Kaspar Anton Karl?
Heralding his symphonic aspirations, Beethoven's Op. 2 piano sonatas all have this many movements
What is four?
The slow movement of the 4th piano concerto supposedly represents a dialogue between the Furies and this legendary musician
Who is Orpheus?
For his final half dozen works Beethoven radically transformed this important Classical genre
What is the string quartet?
This contemporary of Beethoven honored the recently departed composer with quotations of the Eroica in two 1828 works
Who is Schubert?
Who is Count Waldstein?
With 1800 releases of compositions in these TWO genres, Beethoven officially announced himself as the successor to Haydn and Mozart
What are the symphony and the string quartet?
The Farewell Sonata was dedicated to this important patron
Who is Archduke Rudolph?
As evidenced by its quotation and emulation in works by Schubert, Bruckner, Wagner, Mahler, Brahms, and many others, this lays claim to being Beethoven's most often-imitated work
What is the 9th Symphony?
Beethoven's first important piano work is written in this form that he would frequently use in his late period
What is variation form?
Beethoven studied Italian vocal writing with this Imperial Kapellmeister and supposed rival of Mozart
Who is Antonio Salieri?
The infamous four-hour December concert that saw the premiere of the 5th and 6th symphonies took place in this year
What is 1808?
This music critic's review of the 5th Symphony is an important early document celebrating Beethoven's Romantic qualities
Who is E.T.A. Hoffmann?
The assigned passages from Howard's End and A Clockwork Orange both reference this well-known Beethoven work
What is the 5th Symphony?