Symphony No. 1
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symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven
Key facts
- Key
- C major
- Style
- Classical period
- Composed
- 1795 ( 1795 ) –1800
- Dedication
- Gottfried van Swieten
- Published
- 1801 ( 1801 )
- Date
- 2 April 1800
- Location
- K.K. Hoftheater nächst der Burg, Vienna
- Conductor
- Ludwig van Beethoven
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Tonality
- C major
- Dedicated to
- Gottfried van Swieten
- Image
- Beethoven 1. szimfónia 4. tétel.JPG
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- instrumentation
- symphony orchestra
- Commons category
- Symphony No. 1 (Beethoven)
- date of first performance
- 1800-04-08
- publication date
- 1801-00-00
- inception
- 1799-00-00
- copyright status
- public domain
- form of creative work
- symphony
- different from
- Symphony No. 1
- number of parts of this work
- 4
- title
- 1. Sinfonie in C-Dur
- opus number
- 21
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Encyclopedic overview
Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21, was dedicated to Baron Gottfried van Swieten, an early patron of the composer. The piece was published in 1801 by Hoffmeister & Kühnel of Leipzig. It is not known exactly when Beethoven finished writing this work, but sketches of the finale were found to be from 1795.
Historical background
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Symphony No. 1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.