Ludwig van Beethoven

Person · Open Library

Born

1770

Died

1827

Works

1202

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Film & TV

Sound · Bonn, Germany

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer. As a crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. By his late 20s his hearing began to deteriorate, and by the last decade of his life he was almost totally deaf. In 1811 he gave up conducting and performing in public but continued to…

Known for

• Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 with Sir András Schiff2023
• Prelúdio — Self (archive footage)2022
• Ludwig van Beethoven - Fidelio — Self - Composer2004
• Eroica — Composer1972

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Germany

Active from

1770

Active to

1827

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,747,306

Total plays

57,040,919

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is regarded as a central figure in the history of Western art music, and his works are among the most frequently performed in the classical repertoire. His career spans the transition from the Classical period to the Romantic era. Beethoven’s early period, generally dated to about 1802, reflects his development within established Classical forms. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ludwig+van+Beethoven">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,538x

2. Densely Connected Convolutional Networks

   · 2017 · cited 33,776x

3. Molecular dynamics with coupling to an external bath

   · 1984 · cited 28,843x

4. MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

   · 2012 · cited 24,651x

5. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

   · 2016 · cited 23,660x

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Authority record · VIAF

Lifespan

1770–1827

Nationality

DE, AT, DEU, AUT

Role / Field

Pianists, Composers, Pianistas, Pianist, Compositores, Music

Language

ger, zxx, deu

Gender

Male

Recorded by 46 libraries

Quotes

• “I want to seize fate by the throat.”
• “There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works, and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is, one must be half a tradesman.”
• “Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.”
• “Nur das Reine im Herzen kann eine gute Suppe machen.”
• “Musik höhere Offenbarung ist als alle Weisheit und Philosophie.”
• “Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”

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