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

[Quijote]

We should be on La tiranna, WoO 125

We are! And here it is ...

[Quijote]

L = Eduard Baron von Lannoy. Another DV contributor. I'm beginning to bore even myself with these DV fellows.

[Megan]

L = Eduard Baron von Lannoy. Another DV contributor. I'm beginning to bore even myself with these DV fellows.

But I just did La tiranna,

[Quijote]

We should be on La tiranna, WoO 125

Oooh, dodgy one that is. "La" is the definite article. Ah, what the hell, why not, it's just a game. OK, I hereby reserve my "L" for Round 81.
M is for ...

[Megan]

Musical Quips in Letters. WoO 205

[Michael]

Michael.

Quijote gave us an H

Oops! You are dead right!
I meant to give an L! I don't even know my bloody alphabet! And I swear I wasn't even drinking!
Sorry - don't know where I am now. With my luck I'll be landed with the X!

[Quijote]

N = Neapolitan 6th. A harmonic device used by many Viennese composers. An example where LvB uses it is in the Moonlight, 1st movement, bar 50.
[Peter will check and alert you if I'm pulling the wool over your eyes !]

[Megan]

O das ich dir vom stillen Auge. WoO 140

[Michael]

Piringer, Ferdinand. (Who? I know, but times are getting tough, folks.)
Viennese official and musician who became a friend of B around 1821 and made many entries in the Conversation Books.

[Sorrano]

Quiet: Something that the last movement of Beethoven's 7th Symphony is NOT!

[Roehre]

R = Reger, Josef. B's Lawyer around 1813

[Michael]

"Sehnsucht" WoO 146. Song by Beethoven (who else?)

[Megan]

Joke Canon, Ta ta ta, lieber Mälzel' WoO 162 (canon a4)



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[Quijote]

U = Ludwig Ueberfeldt, "Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838) : The History of his Contribution to Beethoven Biography", Nineteenth-Century Music 7 (1984).

[Michael]

Varena, Joseph von. Musician who met Beethoven in Teplitz in 1811.