| 21/11/1796 | Performance of Beethoven's "Ah, perfido" in Leipzig. The singer was Josefina Duskova. Beethoven had written it for her when he was in Prague. At that time she wasn't available and it was performed in Prague by Josephine Clary, to whom Beethoven dedicated the piece afterwards. [Duskova, Josefina] |
| 20/11/1805 | Premiere of Beethoven's opera "Fidelio" at the Theater an der Wien. Anna Milder-Hauptmann performed the title part. Ignaz von Seyfried was the conductor. Carl Demmer was Florestan and Sebastian Mayer was Pizarro. The premiere was not a success and the opera was performed three times. In 1806 the second version would do better. [Milder-Hauptmann, Anna] |
| 29/3/1806 | Premiere of the second version Beethoven's opera "Fidelio". The first version had not been a success in November 1805. Beethoven had reduced the three acts to two acts in this version. Anna Milder was Leonore again, but Joseph August Röckel replaced Carl Demmer as Florestan. Ignaz von Seyfried was the conductor once more. This version was received better than the first one. [Milder-Hauptmann, Anna] |
| 15/6/1810 | Beethoven's music to Goethe's "Egmont" is first performed at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Amalie Adamberger sang the parts that Beethoven had written with her in mind. The first part, the Ouvertüre, became so well known that it was often performed apart from Goethe's play. Goethe and E.T.A. Hoffmann praised Beethoven's music. [Adamberger, Antonie][Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von][Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus] |
| 0/7/1812 | Beethoven and Goethe meet in Teplice. Both were in that city at the time and Bettina von Arnim arranged their first meeting. They saw each other several times during the next days. [Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von] |
| 23/5/1814 | Premiere of the third and final version of Beethoven's "Fidelio". It took place at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna. Georg Friedrich Treitschke had made changes to the libretto. Michael Umlauf was the conductor and Anna Milder was again Leonore. Florestan was performed by Julius Radichi and Marzelline by Anna Bondra. Franz Schubert was in the audience. This third version was a great success. [Milder-Hauptmann, Anna] |
| 25/1/1815 | Franz Wild sings "Adelaide" accompanied by Beethoven in Vienna. It was during the congress of Vienna and the tsarina of Russia attended. Beethoven accompanied him on the piano. It was Beethoven's last public appearance as a pianist. |
| 7/5/1824 | Premiere of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. At the Kärtnertortheater in Vienna. It was longer than any previous symphonie and required a larger orchestra. It also had vocal soloists in the final part. Allthough he was almost deaf, Beethoven was on the stage and gave directions to the orchestra although it was officially directed by Michael Umlauf. Soloist Caroline Unger tapped his arm to make him turn around and face the reaction of the audience. She had tears in her eyes because she realised how deaf he was. Henriette Sontag also sang. [Unger, Caroline] |
| 21/3/1825 | British premiere of Beethoven's "Symphony No. 9". It took place in the Argyll Rooms and the concert was given by the Philharmonic Society. Singers were Rosalbina Caradori, Miss Goodall, Thomas Vaughn and Henry Philips. George Smart was the conductor and the orchestra was led by Franz Cramer. [Caradori-Allan, Rosalbina] |
| 11/9/1825 | Private rehearsal of Beethoven's "Quartet in A minor op. 132". Two private rehearsals took place on 9 and 11 September at the hotel "Zum wilden Mann" in Vienna. The piece was commissioned by Prince Nikolai Borissowitsch Golitsyn. Among the few guests who were present on 11 September were Maurice Schlesinger and Catherine Cibbini. The public premiere took place on 6 November 1825. |
| 26/9/1825 | Farewell diner for Maurice Schlesinger in Vienna. He was moving to Paris. Among the participants were Ludwig van Beethoven and Ignaz Franz Castelli. |
| 20/4/1828 | Performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major at the salon Jean-Henri Pape in Paris. It as been transcribed by Henry Bertini and it was performed by Bertini, Franz Liszt, Ludwig Schincke and Sowinski. [Liszt, Franz][Schuncke, Ludwig] |
| 25/4/1841 | Beethoven's "Emperor Concerto" performed by Berlioz and Liszt in Paris. Berlioz was the conductor and Liszt was the soloist. [Berlioz, Hector][Liszt, Franz] |
| 5/4/1846 | Richard Wagner conducts Beethoven's sixth symphony in Dresden. The performance took place at the Old Opera House. [Wagner, Richard] |
| 22/6/1888 | Beethoven is reburied at the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna |
| 29/9/1949 | Ginette Neveu plays the Beethoven Violin Concerto at the Kurhaus in Baden-Baden. The next month she would die in a plane crash. [Neveu, Ginette] |
| 20/5/1954 | Wilhelm Furtwängler conducts the Berlin Orchestra in Mannheim. Beethoven's 5th and 6th symphonies were performed. Furtwängler had worked in Mannheim from 1915 to 1933. For a concert on 26 May 1933 he had been asked to replace his Jewish first violin Simon Goldberg. He had refused and declared that he would never set foot in Mannheim again. This was the first time that he returned there as a conductor. [Furtwängler, Wilhelm] |
