Beethoven's late string quartets
1825–1826 · Work
Five quartets and the Grosse Fuge, written when Beethoven was wholly deaf — music so strange and inward that it puzzled his contemporaries and inspired every generation after.
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Around 1826
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Stockton and Darlington Railway opens (1825)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821)
- Leo Tolstoy (1828)