Un lieto brindisi: Cantata campestre
Song Title | Un lieto brindisi: Cantata campestre (Search) |
Composer(s): | Ludwig van Beethoven |
Author(s): | Clementi Bondi |
Keyword(s) & Features: | Appreciation; Asclepius; Doctors; Fevers; Giovanni; Happiness; Healing; Long Life; Medicine; Metaphor: Time as Reaper-bird; Praise; Quartet; Sickness; Songs; Time; Toast; Toasting |
First Line | Johannisfeuer begehn wir heute (Search) |
Average Duration | 5:30 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1814 (Search) |
Musical Form | Through-composed (Search) |
Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Jesuit (Search) |
Original Language | German (Search) |
Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/1LyKg0Da4A3MG5FgCohbaJ |
Catalog Designation | WoO 103 (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | Soprano, 2 Tenors, and Bass |
Original Key | Bb Major (Search) |
Premiered By | (Search) |
Notes | Poet was exiled to Tyrol. "The cantata was composed for the name day of Dr. Johann Malfatti [1775-1859], whom the composer had consulted on numerous occasions and who became a personal friend. Later they were to fall out...." (Search) |
Sources Cited | The Beethoven Song Companion, by Paul Reid; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/941519982 (Search) |
Contributor | GTM (Search) |