AGE 38 THROUGH AGE 39 - [1809]
MIDDLE YEARS - HEROIC YEARS - [1802 - 1812]
WORKS CREATED
| op 73: Piano Concerto #5 (Emperor) | Begun Jan, completed April - (??? May - Sept)Ded. to Archduke Rudolph) |
| op 74: String Quartet [Harp] | (May-Sept) |
| op 75: 6 Songs (Text from Goethe & Reissig works) #1 "Mignon" #2 "Neue Liebe, neues Leben" #3 "Aus Goethes Faust" #4 "Gretels Warnung" #5 "An die fernen geliebten" #6 "Der Zufriedene" | |
| op 76: 6 Piano vars | (May-Sept) |
| op 77: Piano Fantasia in g | (completed by Oct) (B's favorite until op106 Hammerklavier) ("Piano Fantasia") |
| op 78: Piano Sonata #24 "Fur Theresa" | (completed by Oct) (2 movements. B. thought highly of it) |
| op 79: Piano Sonata #25 (Sonatina in G) | (May-Sept) |
| op 80: Choral Fantasy for piano, chorus & orchestra | (Intro. comp. Apr after improvisation of it @ perf. 12/08.) |
| op 81a: Piano Sonata #26 "Les Adieux" | (1st movement: "Lebewohl" (Farewell) was composed in May (see below). Subsequent movements: "Abwesenheit" (Absence) "Wiederschen" (Return ) (ded. to Archduke Rudolph written on sketch dated May 4. Composed for Archduke Rudolph leaving Vienna May 4 under French invasion) (Compl. in late yr. before Rudolph's return Jan 30, 1810) (These were 1st Piano Sonatas in 4 yrs) |
| op 82: 4 Songs #1 "Dimmi ben mio" (Hoffnung)" #2 "T'intendo si, mio cer" (Liebes-Klage) #3 "Che faa il mio bene" (Arietta buffa. L'amante ipazin) #4 "Che fa il mio bene" | |
| WoO 18: 2 Marches in F for military band | (revised 1810) |
| WoO 58: 2 Cadenzas on Mozart's piano concerto K466 Movements 1 & 2 | |
| WoO 137: Song "Lied aus der Ferne" | |
| WoO 138: Song "Der Jungling in der Fremde" | |
| WoO 139: Song "Der Liebende" | |
| Hess 99: Piano arr.mil march in F-WoO18 |
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
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LIFE NOTES
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OTHER NOTES
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| Jan 7 | B. accepted Kassel offer. prompting B's friends (C. Gleichenstein & C. Erodody) to speak to nobility re: financial package to keep B. in Vienna. (Rudolph called upon nobility w/ success by Feb) [Nwsltr v7#3p164] | |
| Jan | Work on the 5th Piano Concerto begun | |
| Feb 19 | Beethoven's physician, Schmidt, died. Malfatti began providing medical services. | |
| Feb ? | Introduced to Malfatti family by B's friend, Gleichenstein. Sometime soon after separation from Countess Erdody (~Feb), after having begun seeing Dr. Malfatti. | |
| Feb ? | Staying w/ Countess Erdody @ KrugerstraBe10. B. learned that she was paying large amounts to B's man servant causing B. to believe it indicated intimate relationship with the servant behind B's back. B. therefore moved to Walfishgasse 1087 (3rd fl) until July. (He knew housed a brothel) (Today, ? the site of buildings at Walfischgasse 11 & academiestraBe 22a. Countess later "convinced" him that the money was a ligitimate payment. | |
| Feb 26 | Prince Kinsky, Prince Lobkowitz, Archduke Rudolph guaranteed yearly income of 4000 Gulden/year if B. agreed to remain in Vienna. (Lobkowitz 700, Archduke 1500, Kinsky 1800) w/o other stipulations. | |
| Mar 1 | February 26th monitary offer ratified. Beethoven therefore refused the Kassal offer. | |
| Mar 5 | First public performance of Cello Sonata op69 - played by Nikolaus Kraft and Baroness Ertmann | |
| Mar 14 | B. took on elated tone - marriage and travel considered in letter to Gleichenstein, who was then in Freiburg, asking him to help find Beethoven a wife. | |
| Mar 21 | Julie von Breuning died (19). B. still close. | |
| March 28 | Beethoven sent Breitkopf & Hartel a list of alterations of the 5th and 6th Symphonies. | |
| Apr 9 | Austria declared war on France | |
| April | Cello Sonata op69 (dedicated to Gleichenstein) and 5th Symphony (without the changes Beethoven had asked for, the 5th was republished soon thereafter with the intended alterations) | |
| April | Introduction to Choral Fantasy composed | |
| April | 5th Piano Concerto completed. | |
| ? | Began providing pianoforte compostion lessons to Archduke Rudolph [Pollini CD] | |
| May 4 | Entire nobility (incl. Archduke) fled to city of Ofen (Buda), Hungary. [Nwsltr v7#3p64] Stephan v. Breuning was the only close friend who remained behind. The first movement of op81a - Das Lebewohl was composed at this time for the Archduke. The second 2 movements were composed later in the year during his absence and in anticipation of his return respectively. | |
| May | 6th Symphony published | |
| May 10 | French army surrounded Vienna | |
| May 11-12 | B. took refuge at Kasper Carl's home w/ Johanna & 2yo Karl as French bombarded Vienna on May 11-12. (Stayed in the celler w/ pillows over his head during the severe bombardment. | |
| May 12 | Vienna surrendered to French in afternoon | |
| May 13 |
French reoccupied Vienna for the third time (thru Nov 20). |
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| May-Sept | Quartet op74, Piano Variations op76, Piano Sonata op79 composed | |
| May | 6th Symphony 'Pastoral' published | |
| May 31 | Beethvoven traveled to Hungary then to Baden, "Alter Sauerhof". | Haydn died. |
| June | Piano Trio 'Ghost' op70#1 published | |
| June - July | With communication restricted & friends out of city, B. spent time preparing for upcoming theoretical lessons to Archduke Rudolph, upon his return, by copying out extracts from theoretical works of CPE Bach, Turk, Albrechtsberger and others, and composed cadenzas for Piano Concertos 1-4. | |
| Aug | Moved to Klepperstall 82 (3rd fl). (Now the site of buildings at Schreyvogelgasse 1). Remained there until Early 1810. | |
| Aug | Piano Trio op70#2 published | |
| Sept 8 | B. conducted 3rd sym. at a charity concert | |
| Oct 14 | Peace treaty signed with France | |
| Oct | Commission to compose music for Goethe's Egmont (compl. by June1810) B. ill most of month. | |
| Oct | Piano Fantasia and Sonata op77, op78 completed | |
| Oct | Antonie Brentano returned to Vienna to be with her dying father, Johann Birkenstock. After he died October 30, she extended this visit to 3 yrs during which time the estate was liquidated. [Her history: Born 1780, sent to a convent for religious training and secular education by 1792 - returned to her father's home in Vienna 1795. Married Franz Brentano, a Frankfurt businessman. She moved with him to Frankfurt 1798,,, then back to Vienna 1809 with the dying of her father. He died Oct 30th. B. met her at approx. this time. [Man of His Word pg229] | |
| Nov 23 | Beethoven wrote to Thomson in Edinburgh agreeing to set 43 folksongs and stating that he had already begun composing them. | |
| Dec | B. ill most of month. | |
| Late | Schiller's Wilhelm Tell and Goethe's Egmont set to be produced at the theater - music for them was commissioned from Gyrowetz (Wilhelm Tell) and Beethoven (Egmont) | |
| ? | Franz Oliva, close friend freq. acts as sec. |