German composer and pianist, born in 1770 (baptized 17 December 1770) in Bonn, Germany and died 26 March 1827 in Vienna, Austria.
A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in classical music. Beethoven led Viennese Classicism to its highest development and paved the way for Romantic music.
Beethoven was the eldest son of a singer in the Kapelle of the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and grandson of the Archbishop's Kapellmeister. He moved in 1792 to Vienna, where he had some lessons from Haydn and others, quickly establishing himself as a remarkable keyboard-player and original composer. By 1815 increasing deafness made public performance impossible and accentuated existing eccentricities of character, patiently tolerated by a series of rich patrons and his royal pupil the Archduke Rudolph.
Beethoven did much to enlarge the possibilities of music and widen the horizons of later generations of composers. To his contemporaries he was sometimes a controversial figure, making heavy demands on listeners both by the length and by the complexity of his writing, as he explored new fields of music.{;}German conductor and composer, born 14 May 1885 in Breslau, Lower Silesia, German Empire (today Wrocław, Poland) and died 6 July 1973 in Zürich, Switzerland.
Klemperer went on to hold a number of positions, in Hamburg (19101912); in Barmen (19121913); the Strasbourg Opera (19141917); the Cologne Opera (19171924); and the Wiesbaden Opera House (19241927). From 1927 to 1931, he was conductor at the Kroll Opera in Berlin. In 1935, he migrated to the United States, residing in California after being appointed music director of the , a position he held until 1939. After World War II, he returned to Europe to work at the Budapest Opera (19471950). In 1954, , engaged Klemperer to conduct the in performances of music by Beethoven, Brahms and much more repertoire for Records. Klemperer became the first principal conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in 1959. His last concert was in September 1971.
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Real Name
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Otto Nossan Klemperer
Name Vars
- Dr. Otto Klemperer
- Generalmusikdirektor Otto Klemperer
- Klemperer
- O. Klemperer
- О. Клемперер
- Отто Клемперер
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