Beethoven: Opus 119 Bagatelles

🎼🎶  Your Daily Beethoven, June 1, 2024
The Opus 119 Bagatelles appeared in London in 1823 as "Trifles for the Piano Forte, Consisting of Eleven pleasing Pieces Composed in Various Styles by L. Van Beethoven".

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Beethoven String Quartet No. 8 in e minor, Opus 59 no. 2

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 Your Daily Beethoven, Friday, May 31, 2024
Beethoven’s “Razumovsky Quartets” took the string quartet out of the salon and onto the concert stage, no longer to be considered "light entertainment". The second Quartet opens with a symphonic call to attention and launches into a dense exposition using remarkable economy of musical material – comparable to the Fifth Symphony, which Beethoven was sketching at the time.

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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, Opus 125

🎼🎶 Your Daily Beethoven for Thursday, May 30, 2024.
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony premiered in May of 1824. The composer was by this time profoundly deaf and had not appeared on stage for the last twelve years. At the performance, he shared the stage with Michael Umlauf, who conducted the performance while Beethoven gave the tempos for each movement and beat the time. 

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Beethoven: String Quartet No. 7 in F, Op. 59-1

🎼🎶 Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Six years after the publication of the six Opus 18 string quartets, Beethoven received a commission for three quartets from Count Razumovsky, the Russian ambassador to Vienna, who was the funder of the Schuppanzigh Quartet and himself an accomplished violinist.

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Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major, op 61

Beethoven composed his only violin concerto in 1806, specifically for the young violinist Franz Clement, whose playing was described as being of "indescribable tenderness".
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Beethoven: Leonore Prohaska, WoO 96

🎼🎶 Monday, May 27, 2024
Eleonore Prochaska was the daughter of a Prussian soldier, raised in a military orphanage after the death of her mother. She was one of many German women who fought in the Napoleonic Wars, though most were ejected from the army when it was found out that they were women. 
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Beethoven: String Quartet No. 6 in Bb Major, Opus 18 no. 6

🎼🎶 May 26, 2024
Any idea that Beethoven's "early quartets", the Opus 18 set of six, are  "lightweight" or simply imitative of Haydn and Mozart, will be dispelled by the last - the Quartet in B-flat, "La Melanconia" (Melancholy).
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Beethoven Symphony No. 2 Op. 36 in D Major

🎼🎶 Saturday, May 25, 2024
Beethoven spent the summer and fall of 1802 in the Heiligenstadt health resort at the recommendation of a hearing specialist, and it was here that the 31-year-old artist and composer had to accept the inevitability of his deafness. In the unsent letter known as the Heiligenstadt Testament, Beethoven pours out his agony and despair, but ends with the determination to forge a new path with his music.
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Beethoven Sonata No. 11 in B flat Major, Opus 22

🎼🎶 May 24, 2024
Beethoven’s eleventh piano sonata, the Opus 22 “Grande Sonata” in B-flat major, was his personal favorite among his early sonatas.
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Beethoven: Spring Sonata, Opus 24

🎼🎶Thursday, May 23, 2024
Beethoven's "Spring" Sonata is one of his happiest creations, setting a mood of sublime joy from the very first measures. In this 1975 video, Oleg Kagan on violin and Sviatoslav Richter at the piano perform the Spring Sonata, Opus 24.  
https://youtu.be/aMWUC7YcOuA



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