Aaaaargh! Come on, Philip, Chris, Sorrano, Roehre, Joy, Meg, Hofrat, ......anyone! Only two to go!
(My apologies to anyone omitted.)
Don't let Peter get away with it!
No nearer I'm afraid yet with these worthy attempts! I'm surprised that no.3 is causing such a problem - it will be obvious when you know the answer. The first one is admittedly more difficult and perhaps a little too vague so I'll give a further clue - for 'Principalled lady' you might also read 'lady of the Principality' which was my first idea, but I thought it too obvious and didn't use it!
Could the Lady be - Countess Erdody ?
‘Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.’
Aaaaargh! Come on, Philip, Chris, Sorrano, Roehre, Joy, Meg, Hofrat, ......anyone! Only two to go!
(My apologies to anyone omitted.)
Don't let Peter get away with it!
Sorry Michael, I've been too busy this week to really give it much thought. I'll make a (poor) guess at No. 3, though:
Is it Symphony No. 4? It was a commission from Count Franz von Oppersdorff, and it was lucky to be salvaged, saved, from the Norse giants on either side, slender Greek maiden that it is!
Sorry Michael, I've been too busy this week to really give it much thought. I'll make a (poor) guess at No. 3, though:
Is it Symphony No. 4? It was a commission from Count Franz von Oppersdorff, and it was lucky to be salvaged, saved, from the Norse giants on either side, slender Greek maiden that it is!
Hm. How about the Op. 49 piano sonatas, then? Caspar van Beethoven salvaged them and had them published, against Ludwig's intentions. I don't really see how a commission would work into that, though...
I swore a mighty and solemn oath that I wouldn't come back to this thread ........... but .........
Is No 3 the following (pasted):
August von Kloeber created two more portraits of Beethoven after that. One of it was an oil painting, which today is lost. It showed Beethoven together with his nephew out in the nature. A chalk drawing, which was created several years after the pencil drawing and which already idealizes Beethoven's depiction more, had been preserved. (Two more versions of this depiction had exist, but neither had they been preserved.)
In the 1840s, the Berlin lithographers Theodor Neu and Carl Fischer created several lithographs after this chalk drawing - while being supervised by the painter, as is explicitly said in the inscription of some prints. Thanks to the broad distribution of this lithographs, which had been copied by numerous artists in the 19th century, this portrait of Beethoven became especially popular. Kloeber's pencil drawing however, had not attracted a lot of attention until the 20th century.(S.B.)
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