Works By Ludwig Von Beethoven

Symphonies

Opus 21: Symphony No. 1 in C Major (1800); Opus 36: Symphony No. 2 in D major (1803); Opus 55: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major "Eroica" (1805); Opus 60: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major (1807); Opus 67: Symphony No. 5 in C minor (1808); Opus 68: Symphony No. 6 in F major "Pastoral" (1808) ; Opus 92: Symphony No. 7 in A major (1813); Opus 93: Symphony No. 8 in F major (1814); Opus 125: Symphony No. 9 in D minor "Choral" (1824)

Concertos

Opus 15: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major (1796-1797); Opus 19: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major (1798); Opus 37: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor (1803); Opus 56: Triple Concerto in C major (1805); Opus 58: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major (1807); Opus 61: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major (1808); Opus 61a: An arrangement of Opus 61 for piano sometimes called Piano Concerto No. 6; Opus 73: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major "Emperor" (1809)

Overtures

Opus 43: \qThe Creatures of Prometheus, Overture and Ballet music (1801); Opus 72a: Leonore "No. 2" (1805); Opus 72b: Leonore "No. 3" (1806); Opus 138: Leonore "No. 1" (1807); Opus 62: Coriolan (1807); Opus 84: Egmont (Overture and Incidental Music) (1810); Opus 91: Wellington's Victory (1813); Opus 72: Fidelio (1814); Opus 113: Overture and incidental music for Die Ruinen von Athen (The ruins of Athens) (1811); Opus 117: Overture - König Stephan (King Stephen) (1811); Opus 115: Overture - Zur Namensfeier (1815); Opus 124: Overture - Die Weihe des Hauses (Consecration of the House) (1822)

String quartets

Early quartets:

Opus 18: Six String Quartets
No. 1: String Quartet No. 1 in F major (1799); No. 2: String Quartet No. 2 in G major (1800); No. 3: String Quartet No. 3 in D major (1798); No. 4: String Quartet No. 4 in C minor (1801); No. 5: String Quartet No. 5 in A major (1801); No. 6: String Quartet No. 6 in B flat major (1801)

Middle quartets:

Opus 59: Three "Rasumovsky" String Quartets (1806)
No. 1: String Quartet No. 7 in F major; No. 2: String Quartet No. 8 in E minor; No. 3: String Quartet No. 9 in C major
"Harp" and "Serioso" String Quartets
Opus 74: String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major "Harp" (1809); Opus 95: String Quartet No. 11 in F minor "Serioso" (1810)

Late quartets, including "Grosse Fuge":

Opus 127: String Quartet No. 12 in E flat major (1825); Opus 130: String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major (1825); Opus 131: String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor (1826); Opus 132: String Quartet No. 15 in A minor (1825); Opus 133: Große Fuge in B flat major for string quartet (1824 and 1825); Opus 134: Große Fuge for four hands (two pianos) (1826); Opus 135: String Quartet No. 16 in F major (1826)

String quintet

Opus 29: String Quintet in C major (1801); Opus 104: String Quintet in C minor

Piano trios

Opus 1: Piano Trios Nos.1-3 (1795); Opus 11: Piano Trio No. 4 Opus 11 (1798); Opus 70: Piano Trios No.5 in D Major "The Ghost" & No.6 in E-flat Major (1808); Opus 97: Piano Trio No.7 in B-flat Major "Archduke" (1811)

Duets - solo instrument and piano

Violin sonatas

Opus 12: Three Violin Sonatas (1798)
No. 1: Violin Sonata No. 1 in D major; No. 2: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major; No. 3: Violin Sonata No. 3 in E flat major
Opus 23: Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor (1801); Opus 24: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major "Spring" (1801)
Opus 30: Three Violin Sonatas (1803)
No. 1: Violin Sonata No. 6 in A major; No. 2: Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor; No. 3: Violin Sonata No. 8 in G major; Opus 47: Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major "Kreutzer" (1803); Opus 96: Violin Sonata No. 10 in G major (1812)

Beethoven's Life

Beethoven was born at Bonngasse 515 (today Bonngasse 20) in Bonn to Johann van Beethoven (1740–1792) and Magdalena Keverich van Beethoven (1744–1787). Beethoven was baptized on December 17, but his family and later teacher Johann Albrechtsberger celebrated his birthday on December 16.

Beethoven's first music teacher was his father, a musician in the Electoral court at Bonn who was apparently a harsh and unpredictable instructor. Johann would often come home from a bar in the middle of the night and pull young Ludwig out of bed to play for him and his friend.

Beethoven's talent was recognized at a very early age. His first important teacher was Christian Gottlob Neefe. In 1787 young Beethoven traveled to Vienna for the first time, where he may have met and played for Mozart. He was forced to return home because his mother was dying of tuberculosis. Beethoven's mother died when he was 18, and for several years he was responsible for raising his two younger brothers because of his father's worsening alcoholism.

Beethoven moved to Vienna in 1792, where he studied for a time with Joseph Haydn in lieu of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who had died the previous year. He received additional instruction from Johan Georg Albrechtsberger (Vienna's preeminent counterpoint instructor) and Antonio Salieri. Beethoven immediately established a reputation as a piano virtuoso. His first works with opus numbers, the three piano trios, appeared in 1795. He settled into the career pattern he would follow for the remainder of his life: rather than working for the church or a noble court (as most composers before him had done), he supported himself through a combination of annual stipends or single gifts from members of the aristocracy, income from subscription concerts, concerts, and lessons, and sales of his works

Beethoven died on 26 March 1827 at the age of 56, after a long illness. He was buried in the Währinger cemetery. Twenty months later, the body of Franz Schubert (who had been one of the pallbearers at Beethoven's funeral) was buried next to Beethoven's. In 1888, both Schubert's and Beethoven's graves were moved to the Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery), where they can now be found next to those of Johann Strauss I and Johannes Brahms.