• Beethoven in Bonn (1770-1792)
• Origin and childhood
• Christian Gottlob Neefe's student
• Orchestral musician in Bonn
• Acquaintance of Haydn
• Beethoven in Vienna I
• Haydn's, Albrechtsberger's and Salieri's student
• As freelance pianist in Vienna
• The first great success: „Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus" (1801)
• Beethoven's everyday life as composer
• Concert tours
• The testament of Heiligenstadt
• Beethoven in Vienna II
• Fidelio
• The Rasumovsky quartets
• Commissioned to compose two symphonies
• The end of the career as pianist
• Beethoven and Prince Lobkowitz
• Beethoven in Vienna III
• The great successes of the last years
• The litigation about the guardianship
• The last compositions
• Missa solemnis and ninth symphony
• The string quartets
• Disease and death

• The conversation notebooks
• Beethoven's places of residence
• List of Beethoven's dwellings
• Beethoven's financial circumstances
• Personalities of Beethoven's circle of friends
• Brentano, Antonie (1780-1869)
• Erdödy, Countess Anna Maria (1778-1837)
• Galitzin, Prince Nikolaus Borissovich (1794-1866)
• Lichnowsky, Prince Karl (1756-1814)
• Lobkowitz, Prince Franz Joseph Maximilian von (1772-1815)
• Rasumovsky, Count Andreas Kirillovich (1752-1836)
• Rudolf, Archduke of Austria (1788-1831)

Beethoven - memorial places

Further reading