what music did beethoven composed?
Opera Classical music
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 Music from the opera became the subject of numerous virtuoso works of the time . The brilliant transcription of its themes ( Reminiscences de Robert le diable ) made by the composer and virtuoso Franz Liszt was so popular that it became his calling card : on more than one occasion he was forced to interrupt his programmed concerts to play it because of the demands of the audience . On the day of its publication by Maurice Schlesinger , the edition of 500 was completely sold out and it had to be immediately reprinted . Indeed , the success of Robert , whose score was also published by Schlesinger , was said to have saved him from bankruptcy . Frédéric Chopin and Auguste Franchomme jointly composed a Grand duo concertant on themes from the opera , for cello and piano , in 1832 , and the Italian pianist and composer Adolfo Fumagalli composed an elaborate fantasy on the opera for left hand alone as his Op. 106 . 

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 Bach used the music from the choral movement for both the Gratias agimus tibi and Dona nobis pacem of his Mass in B minor . 

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 Bach 's original score is lost . The music survives in a copy made by C F Penzel , one of Bach 's last pupils , after the composer 's death . Although the date of composition is not known , this is one of Bach 's earliest surviving cantatas . Sources differ as to when and where Bach composed the work , but the balance of opinion has tended to push the date back to the beginning of Bach 's career . Suggestions for the place of composition have been : 

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 With its use of vocal elements throughout , rather than in episodes at or near the end , the work was the first completely choral symphony to be written . Mahler had no doubts about the ground @-@ breaking nature of the symphony , calling it the grandest thing he had ever done , and maintaining that all his previous symphonies were merely preludes to it . " Try to imagine the whole universe beginning to ring and resound . There are no longer human voices , but planets and suns revolving . " It was his " gift to the nation ... a great joy @-@ bringer . " 

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 Bach 's son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach followed the example of an extended setting , composing a Magnificat in nine movements in 1749 , at the end of his father 's life . 
