The A-Z Beethoven Quiz (rules of the game)

[Roehre]

E = key of sonata opus 109

[Megan]

Fidelio (Op. 72) is a German opera in two acts by Ludwig van Beethoven.

[Chris]

FIDELIO

Sorry, Megan - that was the F we used in Round 1!

[Megan]

Sorry, Megan - that was the F we used in Round 1!

Oh, sorry, didn't look back. Sounds too time consuming

I've not long returned from a break Scotland and not quite with it yet.


Fox-trot , what Beethoven did on the way back from the Tavern, filled with wine and good humour.

[Megan]

Franzensbruun



On August 12 1812, Ludwig Beethoven writes to his patron the Archduke Rudolph:

To the ARCHDUKE RUDOLPH
Franzensbrunn, August 12, 1812.


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[Quijote]

Sorry Megan, the Fox-trot wasn't invented before circa 1915, so LvB couldn't have danced it !! Another "F" please.

[Quijote]

Oops, already done !!!
OK, G = Joseph Gelinek ("Abbé Gelinek"), yet another contributor to the original Diabelli Variations project.

[Megan]

Sorry Megan, the Fox-trot wasn't invented before circa 1915, so LvB couldn't have danced it !! Another "F" please.

I did add another F Philip, you must have posted at the same time as I did.

[Roehre]

H = Harfe-quartett , string quartet in E-flat opus 74, so called because of the pizzicato passages in the 1st mvy.

[Sorrano]

I is for Irish Folk Songs, a lovely collection, indeed!

[Roehre]

J = Jeitteles, Aloys, student who wrote the poems used for An die Ferne Geliebte

[Michael]

Kinsky, Prince Ferdinand Blah Blah (Did any of these guys have just two first names?). One of three artistocrats who contributed to Beethoven's annuity from 1809.

[PDG]

L - "Little" Symphony, Op.93 in F (Beethoven called his eighth symphony his Little Symphony). Little, but with a huge heart...

[PDG]

E = key of sonata opus 109

A very under-used key by Beethoven. Just this and one other sonata, with no quartets, symphonies, concertos or trios written in this key.

[PDG]

Fur Alice Springs to mind.

**Applause**. Very good!