B for Beethoven

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Chorba, Terence
• Description:
  Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793−1869). Portrait of Beethoven, 1823 (detail). Oil on canvas, 28.1 in x 30.5 in/71.5 cm x 77.5 cm. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, Germany. Photo credit: Erich Lessing. Digital image from Art Resource, New York, New York, USA ; Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) is one of the most renowned and admired composers in the development of Western Classical music. He was perhaps the greatest contributor to the musical style transition from Classical (roughly 1750–1820), with linear compositional styles, to Romantic (roughly 1798–1837), with dramatic expansion of orchestra size and development of lyrical, less formulaic melodic styles. The German composer’s contributions vastly widened the scope and development of the concerto, quartet, sonata, and symphony. In March 1827, after a prolonged illness, Beethoven died at age 56 in his apartment in Vienna. Discussions of Beethoven’s health have been voluminous, fraught with contro- versy, and limited by an absence of evidence, characteristic of the first half of the 19th century before the availability of radiologic and microbiologic diagnostics.
• Subjects:
  • Music
• Keywords:
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • art science connection
  • emerging infectious diseases
  • art and medicine
  • about the cover
  • viruses
  • B for Beethoven
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  • HBV
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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 2023; 29(9):1948-1949
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC10461678
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Corporate as Subject:
  Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770 1827.
• Genre:
  About the Cover ; Biography
• Volume:
  29
• Issue:
  9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/133598/cdc_133598_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.72 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:298bd0acc1c9ef7ca6208a17a0d0f4952272d14ed62e7c760d8880d241c6a628