... that singer Elise Barensfeld is a possible dedicatee of Ludwig van Beethoven's Für Elise? (23 Sep 2018)
... that violinst
Ignaz Schuppanzigh founded the Schuppanzigh Quartet, which played the premieres of several string quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven? (17 April 2014)
... that when Nikolaus Simrock(pictured) founded music publisher
N. Simrock in 1793, his earliest publications included piano variations by his friend
Beethoven, a former orchestra colleague in Bonn? (7 May 2012)
... that
Beethoven composed two symphonies during the eight years he lived in the Pasqualati House(pictured) in Vienna? (14 Mar 2019)
... that soprano
Josepha Duschek, who premiered Ah! perfido, advertised it as "an Italian scena written by Beethoven for
Mad. Duschek"? (7 June 2014)
... that Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, was a failure in its original form, but was revised partly at the behest of Carl Weinmüller, who then appeared in the premiere in the
bass role of Rocco? (12 Dec 2019)
... that Ernst Christoph Dressler, an 18th-century operatic tenor, violinist, composer, and music theorist, composed a march on which
Beethoven based his earliest published work? (23 June 2019)
... that
Beethoven(pictured) composed three Piano Quartets at age 15, which were published only after his death? (1 Jul 2018)
... that Christian Schreiber, a church administrator, philosopher and poet, wrote a German version of the
Latin Mass for the publication, alongside the original, of Beethoven's
Mass in C major?
... that Beethoven's Third Cello Sonata, first performed in 1809, has been described as the first sonata for piano and cello to treat the instruments as equal partners? (16 Dec 2020)
... that the finale of
Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 31 sees a gradual "return to life" and ends with a "passionate" and "heroic"
coda? (23 Aug 2021)
... that soprano Irma Beilke appeared as Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio on 4 September 1945 in the first opera performance in Berlin after World War II? (22 Dec 2019)
... that the soprano Margot Guilleaume recorded the part of Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio in a complete live recording without dialogue in 1948? (27 May 2017)
... that the fragments of
Beethoven's music in the soundtrack of
Kagel's film Ludwig van are modified to imitate the way the deaf composer heard his own work? (8 Aug 2012)
... that Peanuts Gallery, a 1997 piano concerto by
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, portrays Peanuts characters in movements such as "Schroeder's Beethoven Fantasy" and "Snoopy Does the Samba"? (18 Sep 2020)