August von Kotzebue
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August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue was a German playwright, who had also worked as a Russian diplomat.
Signatur August von Kotzebue
Announcement of two pieces by August von Kotzebue performed at the theater of Bruges on 8 August 1813
Stabbing of Kotzebue
Portrait of Kotzebue in Weimar
The Ruins of Athens
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The Ruins of Athens, Op. 113, is a set of incidental music pieces written in 1811 by Ludwig van Beethoven. The music was written to accompany the play of the same name by August von Kotzebue, for the
August von Kotzebue
…write the libretto for an opera about Attila, which was never written. Beethoven did, however, produce incidental music for two of Kotzebue's plays, The Ruins of Athens (Beethoven's opus 113) and King Stephen (opus 117). Besides his plays, Kotzebue wrote several historical works: his History of the German Empires was…
Ludwig van Beethoven (age 44) depicted in a portrait by Joseph Willibrord Mähler (1815)