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)
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; 1801 engraving by Johann Joseph Neidl after a now-lost portrait by Gandolph Ernst Stainhauser von Treuberg, ca. 1800[32] (Source: Wikimedia)
Prince Lobkowitz depicted in a portrait by August Friedrich Oelenhainz (Source: Wikimedia)
A pre-1804 sketch of Josephine Brunsvik (Source: Wikimedia)
1803 portrait of Beethoven by Christian Horneman (Source: Wikimedia)
The title page of ms. 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 an 1808 portrait by Gerhard von Kügelgen (Source: Wikimedia)
An 1808 portrait of Antonie Brentano by Joseph Karl Stieler (Source: Wikimedia)
Karl van Beethoven depicted in a c. 1820 miniature portrait (Source: Wikimedia)
Beethoven depicted in an 1815 portrait by Joseph Willibrord Mähler (Source: Wikimedia)
Beethoven in 1818 by August Klöber [de] (Source: Wikimedia)
Beethoven in 1819 depicted in a portrait by Ferdinand Schimon [de] (Source: Wikimedia)
Beethoven in 1823 by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Source: Wikimedia)
Beethoven on his deathbed depicted in a Josef Danhauser sketch (Source: Wikimedia)
Beethoven's funeral procession in 1827 (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)
Bildnis Ludwig van Beethoven, Holle, L. - um 1825? (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis Ludwig van Beethoven, Engelmann, Gottfried - um 1820 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis Ludwig van Beethoven, Petersen, H. - nach 1822 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis Ludwig van Beethoven, Kriehuber, Josef - nach 1820 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

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