Beethoven persuades him to delete Johanna's name. 113, 115 and 117.ġ4 November: Beethoven's brother Carl, mortally ill, makes his will, appointing his wife Johanna and Beethoven co-guardians of his son Karl.

June: Philharmonic Society of London commission three overtures from Beethoven for 75 guineas he sends them the already composed opp. May: Beethoven abandons attempts to compose a Sixth Piano Concerto. Oct-Nov Beethoven composes a cantata, Der glorreiche Augenblick, for the Congress, and attends its first performance at the Hofburg on 29 November with the librettist, Weissenbach.ģ1 December: Count Razumovsky's magnificent palace destroyed by fire. 97 with Schuppanzigh and Linke his deafness makes it a traumatic experience.ġ5 April: Beethoven's old patron Prince Lichnowsky dies.ġ8 July Fidelio performed for the first time in its final form.Ģ6 September: Fidelio performed before several heads of state assembled for the Congress of Vienna. January: Beethoven agrees to revive his opera Leonore/Fidelio, asking Treitschke to provide a new libretto.ġ1 April: Beethoven gives the first public performance of the Archduke Trio op. July: Prince Lobkowitz, another of the signatories to Beethoven's annuity, leaves Vienna in disgrace after going bankrupt.ġ2 August: Austria declares war on France.ġ6 October: Napoleon defeated by a combined army of Austrians, Prussians, Russians and Swedes at the Battle of Leipzig, the 'Battle of the Nations'.Ĩ December: Beethoven and Mälzel give a charity concert at the Hofburg at which the Battle Symphony and the Seventh Symphony are heard in public for the first time. The piece is later orchestrated and becomes known as the Battle Symphony op. In return Mälzel constructs the first of several ear trumpets for Beethoven. Mälzel persuades Beethoven to write a piece in celebration of the victory for his mechanical instrument, the panharmonicon. Part 3: Passion and Glory 1813 - 1827, Beethoven's final few years of his life were marred by family feuds and illness, but he still produced some of his best music, including his Ninth Symphony before his death 1813 Battle Symphony premieredġ2 April: Carl van Beethoven, seriously ill with consumption, declares that in the event of his death he wants Beethoven to be guardian of his son Karl.Ģ1 June: The English army under Wellington defeats the French at the Battle of Vittoria in Spain.

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