Johann
Schenck,
Georg Albrechtsberger,
and Antonio Salieri These were the teachers Beethoven turned
to after Haydn. With Schenck, Beethoven continued his studies in counterpoint;
with Albrechtsberger, he advance his knowledge of composition; and
with Salieri (whose present-day claim to fame is a result of the theatrical
fantasy that
he murdered Mozart, first dramatized by Pushkin
and later popularized in Peter Schaefer's Broadway- play-turned- film
Amadeus ), Beethoven learned how to adapt music to song.
The Archduke Rudolph
The Archduke, son of Emperor Leopold II, was both a devoted pupil
and patron. An accomplished pianist, it is thought that Beethoven
suited the difficult piano part of the famous Triple Concerto to the
Archduke's pianistic abilities. Throughout his life, Beethoven corresponded
and maintained a close relationship with the Archduke who dispensing
with the formality otherwise required of his guests, allowed the composer
free access to his apartments. Some of Beethoven's works received
their first performance at the Archduke's court. It was to the Archduke
Rudolph that Beethoven dedicated the Piano Trio in B flat major, Op.
97 (known as The Archduke Trio), the Piano Sonata in E flat
major, Op. 81 (Les Adieux), and the Piano Concertos Nos. 4
and 5.
There
were many other important figures - patrons, friends, teachers and
pupils - in Beethoven's life, among them to name a few more: the Russian
Prince Rasoumovsky (who commissioned the famous quartets that bear
his name), Prince F. Joseph Lobkowitz, Count Moritz von Lichnowsky,
Franz von Brunswick, G.G. von Browne-Camus, Prince Nicholas Esterhazy,
the Prince and Princess of Liechtenstein, Prince Louis Ferdinand of
Prussia, King Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria, the Brentano, von Breuning
and von Fries families, Franz Gerhard Wegeler, Muzio Clementi, Anton
Diabelli, Anton Schindler, Karl Czerny - many of whom became dedicatees
of Beethoven's works. And then there were the women, other than his
mother, who became the objects of his affection... but that is a subject
for another story....
The Archduke Rudolph 
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