Music #344 - Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven  

/BAY-toe-ven/   (1770 – 1827)

He has a long list of compositions.

(L) “Great Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven”

 
(R) “Immortal Beloved” (1994 movie) condensed

Für Elise

* Leezy

Violin Romance No.2

 

Fantasy for Piano, Chorus & Orchestra   

Fidelio opera 

- B's only opera

- The jailer's daughter is in love with a jail worker, who is really a woman in disguise, looking for her husband illegally held in jail by the prison governor .....

Mir ist so wunderbar (A wondrous feeling fills me) quartet

Missa Solemnis  

Wellington's Victory

... over (Napoleon's elder brother) Joseph Bonaparte's forces at the Battle of Vitoria in Spain, 1813.

 

(R) video borrowed from Waterloo (1970 movie)

It uses older themes, such as

* "God Save the King," 

* "Rule Britannia," and 

* "Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre" 

 (** Marlborough Has Left for the War) 

– the tune now known as 

"The Bear Went Over the Mountain" or

"For He's a Jolly Good Fellow."

Source: Wikipedia

Extra:

** Marlborough is the name of an English general (an ancestor of Winston Churchill) who fought against the French at the Battle of Malpaquet in 1709, during the reign of Louis XIV.

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