Beethoven, Ludwig van

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Basic data

  1. baptism-icon
    December 17, 1770 in Bonn
  2. March 26, 1827 in Wien
  3. Komponist
  4. Bonn, Wien

Iconography

Beethoven with the Manuscript of the Missa Solemnis (1820) (Source: Wikimedia)
Beethoven's birthplace at Bonngasse 20 in Bonn is now the Beethoven-Haus museum. (Source: Wikimedia)
Ludwig van Beethoven baptismal document. (Source: Wikimedia)
Silhouette image made of Beethoven "in his 16th year" (c. 1786; age 15). He wears the uniform and wig suited to his employment as a court musician in Bonn.[13] (Source: Wikimedia)
Christian Gottlob Neefe, one of Beethoven's first music teachers, depicted in a c. 1798 engraving (Source: Wikimedia)
Count Waldstein, depicted in a c. 1800 portrait by Antonín Machek (Source: Wikimedia)
The earliest known portrait of Beethoven (age 29); engraving (c. 1801) by Johann Joseph Neidl after a now-lost portrait by Gandolph Ernst Stainhauser von Treuberg (c. 1800).[34] (Source: Wikimedia)
Prince Lobkowitz depicted in a portrait by August Friedrich Oelenhainz. (Source: Wikimedia)
A pre-1804 sketch of Josephine Brunsvik. (Source: Wikimedia)
Portrait of Beethoven (age 33) with a lyre-guitar by Joseph Willibrord Mähler (c. 1804). (Source: Wikimedia)
The title page of the manuscript of the Eroica Symphony with Napoleon's name scored through by Beethoven (Source: Wikimedia)
Beethoven's patron Archduke Rudolf depicted in a portrait by Johann Baptist von Lampi. (Source: Wikimedia)
Goethe depicted in a portrait by Gerhard von Kügelgen (1808). (Source: Wikimedia)
A portrait of Antonie Brentano by Joseph Karl Stieler (1808). (Source: Wikimedia)
Karl van Beethoven depicted in a miniature portrait (c. 1820). (Source: Wikimedia)
Beethoven (age 44) depicted in a portrait by Joseph Willibrord Mähler (1815). (Source: Wikimedia)
Beethoven (age 47) by August Klöber (de) (1818). (Source: Wikimedia)
Beethoven (age 48) depicted in a portrait by Ferdinand Schimon (de) (1819). (Source: Wikimedia)
Beethoven (age 52) by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1823). (Source: Wikimedia)
19th-century lithograph by Carl Offterdinger, depicting the premiere of the Ninth Symphony. Beethoven stands in the center. (Source: Wikimedia)
Beethoven (age 56) on his deathbed as depicted in a Josef Danhauser sketch (1827). (Source: Wikimedia)
Beethoven's funeral procession (1827). (Source: Wikimedia)
Portrait of Beethoven by Christoph Heckel, 1815 (Source: Wikimedia)
From the autograph score of the Moonlight Sonata (Source: Wikimedia)
Beethoven's grave at Zentralfriedhof in Vienna (Source: Wikimedia)
A bust of Beethoven, developed by Hugo Hagen in 1892 and now housed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. (Source: Wikimedia)
Bildnis Ludwig van Beethoven, Riedel, Karl Traugott - 1815 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Ludwig von Beethofen, E. Pönicke - um 1832 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Ludwig van Beethoven, Årgången, Fjerde - um 1832 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis Ludwig van Beethoven, Kunike, Adolph Friedrich - nach 1814 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

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