Un lieto brindisi: Cantata campestre

Song TitleUn 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 LineJohannisfeuer begehn wir heute (Search)
Average Duration5:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1814 (Search)
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsJesuit (Search)
Original LanguageGerman (Search)
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/1LyKg0Da4A3MG5FgCohbaJ
Catalog DesignationWoO 103 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano, 2 Tenors, and Bass
Original KeyBb Major (Search)
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NotesPoet 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 CitedThe Beethoven Song Companion, by Paul Reid; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/941519982 (Search)
ContributorGTM (Search)
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