He created incidental music for the August von Kotzebue play The Ruins of Athens and intended to celebrate the promotion of his patron Archduke Rudolph in his mass Missa Solemnis.
This man composed a work based on the text of the physician Alois Jeitteles in his song cycle To the Distant Beloved. He created incidental music for the August von Kotzebue play The Ruins of Athens and intended to celebrate the promotion of his patron Archduke Rudolph in his mass Missa Solemnis. Works in his most famous genre include one where the horn enters 4 bars before the recapitulation in the first movement and a work that opens with a G-G-G-E flat motif, sometimes called "fate knocking at the door." For 10 points, name this composer of the aforementioned fifth and "Eroica" symphonies who set Frederich Schiller's "Ode to Joy" to music in his famous ninth symphony.
This man composed a work based on the text of the physician Alois Jeitteles in his song cycle To the Distant Beloved.
Ludwig van {Beethoven}