Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770–1827)

Ludwig van Beethoven

Works

See also: w:List of compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven

• Opus 13: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor ("Pathétique") (1798)
• "Sardis", hymn tune based on Opus 40: Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in G major (1802)
• Ode to Joy (in 1785)
• Musical setting to "Concord Hymn" in The Riverside song book (pub. 1893).
• Fidelio (1805–1814), libretto by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, Joseph Ferdinand Sonnleithner, and Georg Friedrich Treitschke
  • Extracts translated by John Oxenford (1835) (external scan)

Letters

• Heiligenstadt Testament

Works about Beethoven

• "Beethoven, Louis Van," by John Weeks Moore in Complete Encyclopaedia of Music, Boston: Oliver Ditson Company (1880)
• "Beethoven, Ludwig van," by George Grove in A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, (ed.) by George Grove, London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd. (1900)
• "Beethoven, Ludwig van," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Ludwig van Beethoven," by Louis C. Elson in University Musical Encyclopedia, New York: The University Society (1912)
• "Ludwig Van Beethoven," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)

About his works

• Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, by George Grove, 1882. (transcription project)
• "Beethoven, Ludwig van, catalogue," in A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, (ed.) by George Grove, London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd. (1900)
• "Beethoven, Ludwig van/Beethoven's Music," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Poems about Beethoven

• "Beethoven" by Florence Earle Coates ("He cursed the day when he was born")
• "Beethoven" by Richard Watson Gilder ("I came to a great city. Palaces")
• "Beethoven" by Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic
• "Beethoven" by Letitia Elizabeth Landon ("A stately and a solemn song")
• "To Beethoven" by Sidney Lanier ("In o’er-strict calyx lingering")