... 1782. Neefe helped Beethoven publish his first composition Variations on a March by Dressler in 1783. In 1784, Maximilian Francis became the new Archbishop-Elector of Cologne. He was a man of culture deeply interested in music. He transformed Bonn into a culturally vibrant city and invited several opera companies to Bonn. This is how Beethoven became familiar with the works of such composers ... his two major piano concerti, the Septet and the First Symphony in 1800, and the Moonlight Sonata in 1801. Beethoven began realizing even before 1800 that he was gradually becoming deaf. For a m...

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