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  2. Für Elise - Wikipedia

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    The score was not published until 1867, forty years after the composer's death in 1827. The discoverer of the piece, Ludwig Nohl, affirmed that the original autograph manuscript, now lost, had the title: "Für Elise am 27 April [1810] zur Erinnerung von L. v. Bthvn" ("For Elise on April 27 in memory by L. v. Bthvn"). [4]

  3. Ernst von Dohnányi - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] He had also recorded various other works, including Beethoven's Tempest Sonata and Haydn's F minor Variations, on early mono LPs. Dohnányi died of pneumonia on 9 February 1960, in New York City , ten days after his final performance, and was buried in Tallahassee, Florida , where he had taught at the university for ten years.

  4. File:IMSLP11471-Fur Elise, Beethoven, WoO59.pdf - Wikipedia

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  5. Catalogues of Beethoven compositions - Wikipedia

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    Most of Beethoven's best known works were published with opus numbers, with which they may be reliably identified.Another 228 works are designated WoO (Werke ohne Opuszahl – literally, "works without opus number"), among them unpublished early and occasional works (Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II, WoO 87), published variations and folksong arrangements (25 Irish Songs, WoO 152 ...

  6. Music of Germany - Wikipedia

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    Beethoven, a student of Haydn's in Vienna, used unusually daring harmonies and rhythm and composed numerous pieces for piano, violin, symphonies, chamber music, string quartets and an opera. Schubert created a field of artistic, romantic poetry and music called lied ; his lieder cycles included Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise .

  7. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...

  8. The Creatures of Prometheus - Wikipedia

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    The ballet is an allegory based on the mythical story of Prometheus, who stole fire from Zeus in order to create mankind from clay.In the ballet, Prometheus finds mankind in a state of ignorance and decides to introduce the ideas of science and art to them, largely based on Beethoven's own support of the Enlightenment movement.

  9. Beethoven (franchise) - Wikipedia

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    In Beethoven, the Newton family finds and adopts a Saint Bernard.The family, with the exception of the father, George (Charles Grodin), becomes attached to the dog.. Meanwhile, a sadistic veterinarian, Dr. Herman Varnick involved with animal experimentation is planning to kill Beethoven for his latest experiment, and George, after discovering his fondness for the dog, springs into action to rescue