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Beethoven Lyrics
(1-1 of 1 song lyrics)Average rating for Beethoven songs is 8.71/10 [73 votes]. Selected popular Beethoven song of Monday, December 23 2024 is "An Die Freude (Ode To Joy)".
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Ludwig van
Beethoven (16 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a composer of the transitional period between the late Classical and early Romantic eras. He was born in Bonn, Germany.
Beethoven is widely regarded as one of the greatest masters of musical construction, sometimes sketching the architecture of a movement before he had decided upon the subject matter. He was one of the first composers to systematically and consistently use interlocking thematic devices, or “germ-motives”, to achieve unity between movements in long compositions. (Some insight into the meaning of the germ-motive device is given at the end of this bio.) Equally remarkable was his use of “source-motives”, which recurred in many different compositions and...
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