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Ludwig van Beethoven [n 1] (baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire and span the transition from the Classical period to the Romantic era in classical music.
Israëls first painted the subject of Children of the Sea in 1863. The subject was popular and Israëls repeated it in other paintings. [1] Many of his paintings show peasants at work or resting. Children of the Sea portrays children at play, and the toy is a sailing boat in the shallow water. [2] In Dutch the painting is known as Kinderen Der ...
Title page of Beethoven's symphonies from the Gesamtausgabe. The list of compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven consists of 722 works [1] written over forty-five years, from his earliest work in 1782 (variations for piano on a march by Ernst Christoph Dressler) when he was only eleven years old and still in Bonn, until his last work just before his death in Vienna in 1827.
Children of the Sea, a 1980 song by Black Sabbath; Children of the Sea, a manga series by Daisuke Igarashi Children of the Sea, a film based on the manga; The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', a 1897 novella by Joseph Conrad also known as The Children of the Sea; Children of the Sea, an 1872 oil-on-canvas painting by Dutch artist Jozef Israëls.
The former child actor, best known for his roles in Varsity Blues and the 2000s Beethoven 3rd and 4th movies, disappeared at just 18-years-old, on January 5, 2006.
In his 1840 biography of Beethoven, Schindler named Julie ("Giulietta") Guicciardi as the "Immortal Beloved". [14] [g] But research by Tellenbach (1983) indicated that her cousin Franz von Brunsvik may have suggested Giulietta to Schindler, to distract any suspicion away from his sister Josephine Brunsvik, with whom Beethoven had been hopelessly in love from 1799 to ca. 1809/1810. [15]
Johann van Beethoven was the son of Maria Josepha Poll (married 1733) and Lodewijk or Ludwig van Beethoven [6] [7] (1712–1773; not to be confused with Johann's famous son of the same name), who was probably born in or near the city of Mechelen, in the Habsburg Netherlands (now in Flanders, Belgium), and had served as a musician in several communities in and around Mechelen before ...
Beethoven's portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1820. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) was a German composer in the transition between the classical and romantic period. He composed in many different forms including nine symphonies, five piano concertos, and a violin concerto. [1] Beethoven's method of composition has long been debated among ...