AGE 28 THROUGH AGE 29 - [1799]
HAYDN YEARS [1794 - 1799]
WORKS CREATED
| op14#2: Piano Sonata #10 in G | (less dramatic) |
| op18: 6 st.quartets: F, G, D, c, A, Bb | Extensive work. #1: Apr w/ rev summer 1800, #2: May w/ rev summer 1800, #3: 1798, completed Jan 1799, #4: Sum 1799, #5: Aug 1799, #6: April 1800 w/ revision summer 1800 (the #6 in Bb was more expansive and expressive] |
| op 21: Work on 1st symphony begun | (completed 1800) |
| WoO 11: 7 Landler - all in D | |
| WoO 12: Spurious - 12 minuets | SPURIOUS - by brother Carl |
| WoO 33: 5 pieces for Count Deym's mechanical clock | (incl. adagio in F #1) |
| WoO 73: 10 variations in B on "La stessa" by Salieri | |
| WoO 74: 6 vars for piano duet. Theme to opening stanza, Goethe's poem "Ich denke dein" | (begun 1799 - comp.1804) [For Countesses Therese & Josephine] |
| WoO 75: 7 variations in F | |
| WoO 76: 6 variations in F | |
| Hess 143: Song, "An die Freude" | (lost) Was early setting of Schiller's "To Joy" referred to by Ries 1803. 2 sketches 1798 survive. |
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
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LIFE NOTES
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OTHER NOTES
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| Jan | Antonio Salieri 1750-1825 began teaching dramatic comp. & vocal music for sev. yrs. (Became critic by 1809.) | |
| Feb | WoO 73 Salieri Variations published | |
| May | Moved to Petersplaz 11(3rd fl) formerly St.-Peter Platz 650.There 8mo.until 1/1800 | ? 4th floor ? |
| ? | Public announcement of Magdalana Willmann's impending marriage. [Man of His Word p16]. (She later died in 1801). | |
| ? | Series of contests with Wolffl at villa of Wolffl's patron, Baron Raymond von Wetzler. | |
| ? | Karl Amenda, Beethoven's close friend moved. | |
| May | 24 yo Countess Therese & 20 yo Josephine came to Vienna from Hungary on a short visit w/ widowed mother. Mother asked that B. give the 2 girls piano lessons. Thru them, B. met & became friends w/ their brother Franz and their youngest sister Charlotte. (Giuletta Guicciardi was their younger cousin sho came to Vienna from Trieste w/ her parents in 1800). [Kerman p26] While in Vienna, family met 49 yo Count Joseph Deym (Herr Muller - he had been exiled after a duel and returned under this pseudonym). He was the proprietor of a famous museum of wax works. Josephine's mother pressed for marriage & Josephine reluctantly agreed (probably partly for the sake of rebuilding the family fortune - in fact Deym was deeply in debt). | |
| June 25 | op 18#1 Quartet - (first version) - copy given to Beethoven's friend Amenda who left Vienna soon thereafter. | |
| Summer | Letter to Karl Amenda: "Today I received an invitation to Modling in the country. I have accepted it." ... "This invitation was all the more welcome to me, as my heart which was already bruised would have been suffering even more. ..." [Anderson p34] | |
| Sept | J.B. Cramer visited Vienna, became close to B. until he left in the next Spring (1800) | |
| ? | Letter to Nikolaus Zmeskall demonstrating Beethoven's humor with friends | |
| Oct | op 13 Piano Sonata (Pathetique) published | |
| Winter | Ill w/ attacks of abdominal cramping and diarrhea through May 1800. Hearing problems ongoing [6/29/1800 letter.Wegeler p28] | |
| Late | Josephine Brunswick (age 20) married Count Deym. Soon after began piano lessons from B. who also provided lessons to her older sister Therese (age 24). [Husband died 1804 by which time 2 sons and 2 daughters] | |
| Dec 21 | Publication announcement of Piano Sonatas op14, & Variations WoO 75 |