Beethoven: Napoleon and the Music of War LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall (TRIH ep 527)
1804 · Resource
Ludwig Van Beethoven, like his precursor and possible acquaintance Mozart, is one of the most famous figures in Western musical history. With his wild hair and furrowed brow, his was a genius marked not by flamboyance and flare, but dark, bombastic gravity. Like Mozart, though, his musical talents also emerged at a young age. Born in Bonn, Germany, in 1770, he was initially taught by his father. Finding his home life dysfunctional however, he eventually moved to Vienna at the age of twenty-on...
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- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Jenner's smallpox vaccine (1796)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Napoleonic Wars (1803)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Abolition of British slave trade (1807)
- Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806)
- Cession of Louisiana to the US (1803)