Music
Ludwig van Beethoven
Addresses you can still visit
Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
Performed here
Keglevich Palace
Beethoven held a musical academy in Keglevich Palace during his 1796 visit to Bratislava.
Traces in other cities
- Vienna
- Beethoven Museum in Heiligenstadt — Beethoven stayed in Heiligenstadt in 1802 and wrote the anguished letter now known as the Heiligenstadt Testament here.
- Vienna
- Beethoven Pasqualati House — Beethoven lived here intermittently for eight years and worked on Fidelio, Für Elise and major symphonies.
- Vienna
- Café Frauenhuber — Beethoven performed a quintet for piano and winds at the establishment on April 6, 1797.
- Vienna
- Mayer am Pfarrplatz — Beethoven lived briefly in the present wine-tavern building in 1817.
- Vienna
- Palais Lobkowitz — Beethoven regularly played at the palace and dedicated his Third Symphony to its owner, Prince Lobkowitz.
- Vienna
- Vienna Central Cemetery — Beethoven’s remains were transferred to an honorary grave in Group 32A of the Central Cemetery.
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