Beethoven

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Chapter 50

• Beethovens Middle Period
• 18021814

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Lecture Overview

• Beethovens life and times during the middle
  period (c1802-c1814)
• The new way Beethovens innovations
• Symphonies of the middle period
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Symphony No. 3 in Eb (Eroica), 1802-1805
• Time permitting Fidelio, Leonores aria
  Abscheulicher! (1814)
• Review

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Events in Beethovens Life During the Middle
Period

• 1802 suicidal despair over deafness writes the
  Heiligenstadt Testament
• 1804 disillusionment as Napoleon crowns himself
  Emperor
• 1805 opera Fidelio completed and premiered
• 1809 receives annuity from three Viennese
  nobility Haydn dies
• 1812 love affair with Antonie Brentano reaches
  crisis point letter addresses her as the
  Immortal Beloved
• 1813 plan for Beethoven to become guardian of
  nephew, Karl, upon the death of
  Beethovens brother
• 1814 fall of Napoleon Congress of Vienna is
  convened

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Portrait of Beethoven c1806

• Beethovens aristocratic and wealthy patrons
  often commissioned the painting of his portrait
  during the composers middle period. In 1806, two
  portraits of him were made by the Viennese
  painter Isidor Neugass, one for Prince Karl
  Lichnowsky (Beethovens most important early
  patron in Vienna), the other (shown here) for the
  Brunsvik family. Two of the Brunsvik
  daughtersJosephine and Theresewere Beethovens
  piano students, and Josephine was one of his many
  love interests.

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Beethovens Principal Music of his Middle Period
(18021814)

• Piano Sonatas Nos. 2127 (including the
  Waldstein, Appassionata, and Farewell Sonatas)
• Symphonies Nos. 38
• Concertos Nos. 35 for piano Violin Concerto
• String Quartets Nos. 711 (including the three
  Razumovsky Quartets, Op. 59)
• Violin Sonatas Nos. 610 (including the Kreutzer
  Sonata)
• Trios (violin-cello-piano) Nos. 57 (including
  the Archduke Trio)
• Opera Fidelio

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Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in Eb Major (Eroica),
1802-1805, movement 2 (Funeral March)
Ternary form
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Review Key Terms

• Heiligenstadt Testament
• symphonie concertante
• academy
• program music
• melodrama
• cabaletta
• Immortal Beloved