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Creator · Composer

Ludwig van Beethoven

Biography

Who can best portray the great Viennese classicist Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) if not his fellow composers? Here's what Anatol Vieru wrote in an essay about the Master: "There are values that twinkle permanently like stars in the sky, illuminating nations and defying the centuries. Near or far, these stars remain in the heights forever. Beethoven is such a star by which navigators in the sea of culture determine their location. Beethoven is not just an innovator, he radically changed the musical climate itself... He brings together as a focus the achievements of music since Bach and sheds light far ahead into the twentieth century" (translation by Dragomir Yossifov). There was no genre in which a composer could create and not be challenged. His modernity, which we decipher to this day, has a particularly powerful and vital impact with the universe of his symphonies - "only" nine in number, but so different and unique in their intoxicating spiritual potential! Beethoven established in them a new language, new relationships of means of expression, a new concept of orchestral sound and thought. The genre is the object of his constant experimentation. The hundreds of sketches that precede the stages of the birth of each symphonic opus contain "innumerable imaginative developments, reflecting at once the predictable overall conception and the unpredictable bounces of the imagination" (André Boucourechliev).

Works

Grosse Fuge op.133String Quartet No.4 in C Minor, Op.18String Quartet No.10 "Harp", Op. 74String Quartet No.5 in A Major, Op.18Sympony No.3 in E-flat Major "Eroica", Op.55Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.3 in C minor, Op. 37Symphony No.8 in F Dur, Op.93The Fantasy (Fantasia) for piano, vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra, Op. 80Overture and Hallelujah from Christ on the Mount of Olives (Christus am Ölberge) Op. 85Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.5 in Es Major, Op.73Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op.61Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.4 in G Major Op.58Overture Coriolan, Op.62Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1 in C major, Op.15Symphony No.5 in C Minor, Op.67Symphony No.9 for Soloists, Choir and Orchestra in D minor, Op.125Symphony No. 6 Pastoral in F major, Op. 68Overture EgmontSymphony No.4 in B Major, Op.60Symphony No.7 in A Major, Op.92String Trio, Op. 9 No. 1String Trio No.3, Op.9Sonata for Piano No.16 in G major, Op. 31String Quartet No.14, Op.131Sonata for Violin and Piano No.1, Op.30Wind OctetFive Sonatas for Violoncello and PianoSonata for Piano No.17Sonata for Violin and Piano No.3Sonata for Piano No.25 in G major, Op.79Variations on a Theme by DiabelliPiano Sonata No.26, "Farewell", Op.81Piano Sonata No.28, Op.101Piano Trio No.7, Op.97Sonata for Piano No.9, Op.14, No.1Piano Sonata No.12, Op. 26Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op.13 PathetiqueSonata for Violoncello and Piano No.3 in A major, Op. 69Sonata for Violoncello and Piano No.3, Op.63Piano Sonata No.1, Op.27Piano Sonata No.1 Op.27String Quartet Op.130/133Chamber SymphonyString Quartet No.1 in F Major, Op.18String Quartet, Op. 95, "Serioso"Sonata for Violin and Piano No.8 in G dur"An die ferne Geliebte" (To the distant beloved) Song Cycle, Op. 98Piano Concerto in E flat Major No.0, WoO. 4Two songs from "Egmont", Incidental music, Op. 84Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 /Piano version by Dmitri Bashkirov/Kreutzer Sonata No.9, Op. 47 (arr. for strings by Ivan Penchev)Piano Trio No.4 in B major, Op. 17 "Gassenhauer""King Stephen" Overture, Op.117String Quartet No.13, Op. 130 - New finale (VІ part)"Un astro nuovo", for Mixed Choir and String Orchestra (Arr.by A. Atanasov)"Jesu dulcis memoria", for Mixed Choir and String OrchestraBagatella No.25 "Für Elise" , arr. for Piano and Orchestra by Georgi CherkinChrist on the Mount of OlivesQuintet op.71Romance for Violin and Orchestra No.1 in G major, Op. 40Sonata for Horn and Piano in F major, Op.17First Movement from Piano Concerto No.4 in G major, Op. 48Fourth Movement from Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67Fourth Movement from Symphony No.9 in D minor, Op. 125Mass in C major, Op. 86 for Soloists, Choir and OrchestraFirst Movement from Piano Concerto No.3Sonata for Piano No.15 in D major, Op. 2832 Variations in C minor for PianoConcert Aria „Ah! perfido“ for Soprano and Orchestra, Op. 65Serenade, Op. 25Sonata for Violin and Piano No.10 in G major, Op.96String Trio No.5 in C minor, Op.9, No.3Rondo for Piano QuintetLast Musical ThoughtIntroduction, Variations and FuguePresto in C minorAllegro in C minorPresto in C majorPrelude in F minorPiano Trio, Op.1, No.3 in C minorTwo Duets for Clarinet and BassoonMusic to "Egmont"Leonore No. 3Trio for piano, clarinet (or violin), and cello in B-flat major, Op. 11, "Gassenhauer Trio"Sonata for Violin and Piano No.2 in A major, Op.12, No.2Quintet for Piano and Winds Op.16 in Es MajorTrio for Flute, Bassoon and Piano in G DurSonata for Piano No.31 in A-flat major, Op.110Sonata for Piano No.29 in B-flat major, "Hammerklavier", Op. 106Music to Piece "The Ruins of Athens" by August von Kotzebu, Op.113Bagatella No.25 "Für Elise" for Solo PianoSonata for Piano No.14 in C-sharp minor, Op.27, No.2 „Sonata quasi una Fantasia“Overture "Consecration of the House", Op.124Aria of Leonore from Opera "Fidelio" (Abscheulicher! wo eilst du hin?…Komm, Hoffnung, lass den letzten Stern)String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat major, Op.127String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, "Razumovsky", Op.59, No.3String Quartet No.6 in B-flat major, Op.18, No.6Yorkshire MarchString Quartet No.3 in D major, Op. 18, No.3Sonata for Violin and Piano No.9 "Kreutzer" in A Major, Op.47Sonata for Violin and Piano No.7 in C minor, Op. 30Gratulations-Menuett in E-Flat Major for OrchestraSonata for Cello and Piano No.4 in C major, Op.102, No.1String Quartet No.15 in A minor, Op.132String Quartet No.2 in G major, Op. 18, No.2String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18, No. 1Six Bagatelles, Op.12611 Bagatelles, Op. 119String Quartet No13Wellington's Victory, Op. 91String Quartet No.9 in C major, "Razumovsky", Op.59, No.3Overture "The Creatures of Prometheus", Op.43Serenade in D major, Op.8"Sturm" from Symphony No. 6"Missa solemnis" in D major, Op. 123Piano Concerto No. 2Septet for Winds and Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 20Sonata for Piano No.14, Op. 27 No.2 "The Moonlight Sonata" (arr. for Piano and Orchestra by Georgi Cherkin)„ Namensfeier"Concerto for Violin, Violoncello, Piano and Orchestra in C major, Op.56Overture "Leonore" No.2Sonata for Piano No.18 in E-flat major, Op. 31, No.3Sonata for Piano No.21 in C major "Waldstein", Op.53Sonata for Piano No.3 in C major, Op.2Sonata for Piano No.32 in C minor, Op.111Sonata for Piano No.7 in D major, Op.10, No.3Sonata for Piano No.30 in E major, Op. 109Piano Quartet No.1 in E-flat MajorRomance for Violin and Orchestra No.2, in F major, Op. 50Symphony No. 2 in D major , op. 36Symphony No.1 in C major, Op.21String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op.95String Quartet No.16 in F major, Op.135String Quartet No.7 in F major "Razumovsky", Op. 59, No.1Sextet for Two Horns and String Quartet, Op. 81bGrosse Fugue, Op. 133 (Finale of Quartet No.13)Sonata for Violin and Piano No.5 "The Spring", Op. 24Sonata for Cello and Piano No.2 in G minor, Op.5Fidelio - Overture Op. 72c in E-minorPiano Sonata No.23 in F minor "Appassionata", op.57

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