Der freie Mann
Song Title | Der freie Mann (Search) |
Composer(s): | Ludwig van Beethoven |
Author(s): | Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel |
Keyword(s) & Features: | Brothers; Confidence; Death; Faith; Fatherland; Free; Freedom; Graves; Heathens; Ingratitude; Jackets; Laws; Life; Men; Mocking; Optional Chorus; Priests; Sacrifice; Seeing; Smocks; Stations in Life; Summoning; Truth; Tyrants |
First Line | Wer ist ein freier Mann? (Search) |
Average Duration | 1:45 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1792 (Search) |
Musical Form | Strophic (Search) |
Original Language | German (Search) |
Score Source | https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/4/4a/IMSLP318572-PMLP101253-LvBeethoven_Der_freie_Mann,_WoO_117_BH_Werke.pdf |
Audio Source | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48tP5M9dqco |
Catalog Designation | WoO 117 (Search) |
Range: | D4 - F5 (Search) |
Original Key | C Major (Search) |
Premiered By | (Search) |
Notes | Poet went blind at 22, and was friends with Voltaire, Vittorio Alfieri, and the Swiss poet Johann Kaspar Lavater. Revised in 1794 (Search) |