description, [>]–[>]
dysentery epidemic (1781), [>]–[>]
electorates history, [>]
Enlightenment, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
famine (Max Friedrich’s regime), [>]
fire at Electoral Residence (1777), [>]–[>], [>]
flood (1784), [>]–[>]
French occupation/war and, [>], [>], [>], [>]
French Revolution/Terror and, [>]–[>]
golden age, [>], [>]
holidays/celebrations and, [>]
Illuminati and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Kapelle breakup, [>]
Kapelle Mergentheim trip, [>]–[>]
music/dance importance, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
people of (1700s), [>], [>]–[>]
Rhine importance, [>]–[>]
University of Bonn, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
See also Beethoven, Ludwig van, and Bonn; specific individuals
Boston Massacre (1770), [>]
Bouilly, J.-N., [>], [>], [>]
Braun, Peter Anton, Baron, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Braunhofer, Anton, [>], [>]
Breitkopf & Härtel publisher, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
See also Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung (AMZ/General Musical Magazine)
Brentano, Antonie
background/description, [>]–[>]
Beethoven and, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Bettina and, [>]
“Immortal Beloved” and, [>]–[>], [>]
Brentano, Bettina
Achim von Arnim marriage, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
background/description, [>], [>]–[>]
Beethoven and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Beethoven meeting, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
conflict with Goethe’s wife, [>]–[>]
Goethe and, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
on Goethe/Beethoven meeting, [>]–[>]
“Immortal Beloved” and, [>]–[>], [>]
letters/publications and truth, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Brentano, Clemens, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Brentano family, [>], [>]
Brentano, Franz, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Breuning, Christoph von, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Breuning, Eleonore (Lorchen) von, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
marriage to Wegeler, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Breuning, Emanuel Joseph von, Hofrat, [>], [>]
Breuning family
Beethoven/Bildung and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
house/visitors, [>]–[>], [>]
Breuning, Gerhard, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Breuning, Helene von
background, [>]
Beethoven and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Breuning, Lorenz (Lenz) von, [>], [>], [>]
Breuning, Lorenz von, Canon, [>], [>]
Breuning, Stephan von
Beethoven and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
death, [>]
first love, [>]
first wife’s death/burial place, [>], [>]
as Karl Beethoven’s guardian, [>], [>], [>], [>]
quarrel/reconciliation with Beethoven, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Bridgetower, George, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Browne, Count/Countess, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Brunsvik, Anna von, Countess, and daughters, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Brunsvik, Charlotte von, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Brunsvik, Franz von, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Brunsvik, Josephine von, [>], [>]. See also Deym, Josephine, Countess
Brunsvik, Therese von, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Bureau des arts et d’industrie, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Burggraf, C. J. M., [>]
Burke, Edmund, [>]
Burney, Charles, [>], [>], [>]
bust/life mask of Beethoven (Klein), [>]–[>], [>]
Calvinism, [>], [>]
canon, [>]
Cantata on the Accession of Emperor Leopold II (Beethoven), [>], [>], [>], [>]
Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II (Beethoven), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Castlereagh, Viscount, [>], [>]–[>]
Catherine the Great, [>], [>]
Catholicism
Beethoven and, [>]
newborn name day rituals, [>], [>]
See also specific individuals
cello sonata of op. [>] (Beethoven), [>]–[>]
Charlemagne, [>]
Chénier, Marie-Joseph, [>], [>]
Cherubini, Luigi
background/music, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Beethoven and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Lodoïska, [>], [>], [>]
Choral Fantasy (Beethoven), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Christus am Ölberge (Beethoven), [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Classical period (music)
description, [>]
Enlightenment and, [>]
fugue form, [>]
musical form and, [>], [>]
Classical style (music)
creation of, [>]
description, [>], [>]
clavichord vs. harpsichord, [>]
“clavier,” [>]
Clemens August, Archbishop Elector of Cologne
ancestors/family of, [>]–[>]
Beethoven (grandfather) and, [>]
Bonn makeover and, [>], [>]–[>]
Bonn residents employment and, [>]–[>]
childhood/education, [>]–[>]
death, [>]
debt, [>], [>]
description/character, [>]
music/art and, [>], [>]
positions before Elector, [>]
residences and, [>], [>]
Clement, Franz, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Clementi, Muzio
Beethoven and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
music/background, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
coda, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, [>]
Collin, Heinrich von, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]. See also Coriolan (Beethoven’s music for Collin’s play)
Cologne
archbishop (1257) and, [>]
Bonn and, [>]
as “free city,” [>]
Concerto No. [>] in C Minor (Beethoven), [>]–[>]
concerto-sonata, [>]–[>]
Concerts for Enthusiasts, [>]–[>]
Congress of Vienna
Beethoven and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
description, [>]–[>], [>]
Final Act/consequences, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
spies/censorship following, [>]–[>], [>]
contra dance, [>], [>]–[>]
Coriolan (Beethoven’s music for Collin’s play), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
crab canon, [>]
Cramer, Carl Friedrich, [>], [>]
Cramer, Johann Baptist, [>]–[>]
criticism/reviews of Beethoven’s work
Beethoven reading reviews/responding, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
examples, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
“fantastic” sonatas, [>]
late-eighteenth-century taste and, [>]–[>]
provocation and, [>]
review of first published compositions, [>]
See also Allgemeine Musikalische
Zeitung (AMZ/General Musical Magazine); duels (musical); specific individuals; specific works
Czerny, Carl
background/music, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Beethoven/Beethoven’s music and, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
father of, [>]–[>], [>]
de Staël, Madame, [>], [>], [>]
deafness. See Beethoven, Ludwig van, and health/hearing problems
death of Beethoven
AMZ on Beethoven, [>]–[>]
auction of effects, [>]–[>]
autopsy/death mask, [>]
body exhumed/reburials, [>]
burial, [>]
friends/family at deathbed, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
funeral, [>], [>]–[>]
funeral oration, [>], [>]–[>]
last days, [>], [>]–[>]
lying-in, [>]
materials found after death, [>]
memorial services, [>]
monument, [>]
offer to gravedigger, [>]
pallbearers/torchbearers, [>]
Declaration of Independence (Jefferson), [>]
Degenhart, Johann Martin, [>], [>]
deism, [>]–[>]
Dembscher, Ignaz, [>]
Description of a Girl (Beethoven), [>]
Deym, Joseph, Count, [>], [>]–[>]
Deym, Josephine, Countess
Beethoven and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Beethoven’s songs for, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Count Deym and, [>], [>]–[>]
death, [>]
“Immortal Beloved” and, [>], [>], [>], [>]
marriage to Stackelberg, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
sisters Charlotte/Therese and, [>]
See also Brunsvik, Josephine
Diabelli, Anton/publisher, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Diabelli Variations (Beethoven), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
diary (Tagebuch) of Beethoven
entries in, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
giving up on love/family, [>]–[>]
Diderot, Denis, [>]–[>]
Dietrichstein, Moritz, Count, [>]–[>], [>]
“dominant” defined, [>]
Dragonetti, Domenico, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Dressler Variations (Beethoven), [>], [>], [>], [>]
duels (musical), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Duport, Jean-Louis/Jean Pierre, [>], [>]–[>]
Egmont music (Beethoven), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Eichoff, Joseph, [>]
Eighth Symphony (Beethoven)
performances/publications, [>]
writing/description, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Elector title, [>]
Electoral Sonatas (Beethoven)
composition style and, [>]–[>]
D Major Sonata, [>]
F Minor Sonata, [>]–[>]
Max Friedrich and, [>], [>]
review, [>]
Electorate of Cologne
end of, [>]
fire at Electoral Residence (1777), [>]–[>], [>]
history, [>]
music and, [>]
See also specific individuals
Emilie M.’s letter from Beethoven, [>]–[>]
Emperor Concerto/Fifth Piano Concerto (Beethoven), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Empfindsamkeit aesthetic/cult, [>]
englische described, [>]–[>]
Enlightenment
1780s and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Beethoven and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Bonn and, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
church/state separation, [>]
deism, [>]–[>]
description/views, [>]–[>]
education and, [>]
Electorate of Cologne government style changes, [>]
geographical differences, [>]–[>]
German literature/philosophy and, [>]–[>]
Germany and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
happiness/joy and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Leipzig and, [>]–[>]
reason/science and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
religion and, [>]–[>], [>]
See also specific events; specific individuals
Erdödy, Anna Marie, Countess, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Eroica Symphony (Beethoven)
Beethoven as hero, [>]
Beethoven conducting, [>]
Beethoven planning/motives, [>]–[>]
englische/Prometheus theme and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
hero/Napoleon and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
musical form and, [>]–[>]
Napoleon becoming emperor and, [>]–[>], [>]
New Path and, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Oberdöbling house and, [>], [>]
performances, [>]
premiere, [>], [>]–[>]
private readings, [>]–[>], [>]
publishing of, [>]
reception, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
writing/description, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Ertmann, Dorothea von, Baroness, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Esterházy, Nikolaus, Prince, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
“Farewell, The”/Das Lebewohl (Beethoven), [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Fidelio (Beethoven)
Beethoven/Braun quarrel and consequences, [>]–[>]
censors and, [>]–[>]
description, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
French army occupation and, [>]–[>], [>]
premiere of reworked version/performances, [>]–[>]
premiere performance, [>]–[>]
revisions/revival, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
reworking, [>]–[>], [>]
story, [>]–[>]
title change from Leonore, [>]
writing/rehearsals, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Fifth Piano Concerto/Emperor Concerto (Beethoven), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Fifth Symphony (Beethoven)
dedication, [>]
description, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
writing, [>], [>]
First Symphony (Beethoven), [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Fischenich, Bartholomäus Ludwig, [>], [>], [>]
Fischer, Cäcilie
Beethoven family and, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Johann Beethoven and, [>]
Ludwig and, [>], [>]–[>]
Maria Beethoven and, [>]–[>], [>]
Pfeifer and, [>]
Rovantini and, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Fischer, Gottfried
as baker, [>]–[>]
on Beethoven family, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Fischer house/surroundings
Beethoven brothers play and, [>], [>]–[>]
description, [>], [>]
flood (1784) and, [>]–[>]
Rhine and, [>], [>]
telescopes and, [>]
Fischer, Johann, [>]
Fischer, Theodor
as baker, [>]
Beethoven family and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
children, [>]
Forbes, Elliot, [>]
Förster, Emanuel Aloys, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Fourth Piano Concerto (Beethoven), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Fourth Symphony (Beethoven), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
F
rance
Revolution and Terror, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
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