1/10 "This One's for Maxie Brentano" (Dedications)

"Waldstein"'s Dedication Page

I sometimes wonder: if more of Beethoven's piano sonatas and other works had "song titles" to them, would they be more popular?  "Werke ohne Opuszahl Number 59" just doesn't roll off the tongue like "For Elise". It seems the "nicknamed" ones get most of the press....  The nicknames typically come from the dedicatee.

I list the dedications below in the hope that "Piano Sonata 10, Opus 14, No. 2" can soon come to popular fame as "von Braun's 2nd".  Personally I'm also very fond of Sonata 28, Opus 101 - I mean, "The Baroness"...

Piano Sonata Dedications:

No. 1, 2, and 3 Opus 2, No 1-3: to Joseph Haydn
No. 4 Opus 7: to Countess Babette von Keglievicz
No. 5, 6, and 7 Opus 10, No 1-3: to Countess von Browne
No. 8 Opus 13 "Pathétique": to Prince Carl von Lichnowsky
No. 9, 10 Opus 14, No 1, 2: to Baron von Braun
No. 11 Opus 22: to Baron von Braun
No. 12 Opus 26 "Funeral March": To Prince Carl von Lichnowsky
No. 13 Opus 27 No 1 "Quasi Una Fantasia": to Princess Josephine von Liechtenstein
No. 14 Opus 27 No 2 "Moonlight": to Countess Julie Guicciardi
No. 15 Opus 28 "Pastoral": to Joseph von Sonnenfels
No. 21 Opus 53 "Waldstein": to Count von Waldstein
No. 23 Opus 57 "Appassionata": to Count Franz von Brunswick
No. 24 Opus 78 "To Therese": to Countess Therese von Brunswick
No. 26 Opus 81A "Les Adieux": to Archduke Rudolph of Austria
No. 27 Opus 90:  to Count Lichnowsky
No. 28 Opus 101: to Baroness Dorothea von Ertmann
No. 29 Opus 106 "Hammerklavier": to Archduke Rudolph of Austria
No. 30 Opus 109: to Ms. Maximiliane Brentano
No. 32 Opus 111: to Archduke Rudolph of Austria

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String Quartet Dedications:

Quartets 1-6 Opus 18: to Prince Franz Joseph Maximilian von Lobkowitz
Quartet 7-9 Opus 59 "Rasumovsky Quartets": to Count Andreas Kyrillowitsch Rasumovsky
Quartet 10 Opus 74 "Harp": to Prince Franz Joseph Maximilian von Lobkowitz
Quartet 11 Opus 95 "Serioso": to Nikolaus Zmeskall von Domanovetz
Late Quartets, Opus 127, 130, 132 "Galitzin Quartets": to Prinz Galitzin
Opus 131: to Baron von Stutterheim (nephew Karl's superior officer)
Opus 135: to Johann Wolfmayer (merchant friend)

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Symphony Dedications:

Symphony 1 to Baron Gottfried van Swieten
Symphony 2 to Prince Carl von Lichnowsky
Symphony 3 "Eroica" to Prince Franz Joseph von Lobkowitz
Symphony 4 to Count Franz von Oppersdorff
Symphony 5 to Prince Lobkowitz and Count Rasumovsky
Symphony 6 "Pastoral" to Prince Lobkowitz and Count Rasumovsky
Symphony 7 to Count Moritz von Fries
Symphony 8 to No one
Symphony 9 "Choral" to King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia

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Beethoven's "Baroness" Sonata performed by Maria Yudina
1. Vivacious and with Deep Feeling
2. Lively. March Moderately