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Birth of Franz Joseph Haydn.

Death of J.S. Bach.

Birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Death of Handel.

Ludwig Van Beethoven born

Beethoven begins music lessons with his father.

Beethoven visits Vienna, plays for Mozart.

Beethoven returns to Vienna where he will spend the rest of his life, and begins to study with Haydn.

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Beethoven writes three piano trios, Op. 1, and dedicates them to Haydn.

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1, Cello sonatas, Op. 5.

Beethoven notices first symptoms of deafness; composes "Pathetique" Sonata; at work on the six Op. 18 string quartets.

Beethoven writes the First Symphony.

Beethoven's First Symphony, Op. 21 is premiered.

Beethoven's early string quartets (Op. 18) published. (Composed 1798 - 1800.)

Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata composed.

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Beethoven is infuriated by his hero's betrayal of democracy, rips off and burns the title page of his "Bonaparte Symphony." His new title is "Eroica," "in memory of a hero."

Beethoven's first three middle string quartets (Op. 59, Razumovsky) are published. Beethoven's Eroica (Third) Symphony first performed.

Beethoven's Fifth and Sixth (Pastoral) Symphonies premiere on one program.

Beethoven's Harp Quartet (Op. 74) - the fourth of the middle quartets - published.

Beethoven's Serioso Quartet (Op. 95) - the fifth of the middle quartets - published.

Beethoven's Emperor piano concerto first performed.

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Beethoven's final piano sonata, Opus 111, No. 23, composed (1821-22).

Beethoven's Quartet in E flat major, Op. 127 - first of the late quartets - published. Ninth Symphony (?)

Beethoven's Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 - second of the late quartets - published.

Beethoven's Quartet in B flat major, Op. 130 - third of the late quartets - published.

Beethoven's Große Fuge in B flat major, Op. 133, published.

Beethoven's Quartet in c sharp minor, Op. 131 - fourth of the late quartets - published.

Beethoven's Quartet in F major, Op. 135 - fifth of the late quartets - published.

Beethoven dies at age 56. Schubert among torch bearers at the funeral procession.

Birth of German composer Johannes Brahms.

Birth of French composer, Georges Bizet.

Birth of Russian composer Peter Tchaikovsky

Birth of Bohemian composer Antonin Dvorák.

Birth of Norwegian composer Edward Grieg

Franz Liszt plays his revolutionary E flat major Piano Concerto at Weimar.