What composer was best known for his opera "Louise", Ludwig van Beethoven or Gustave Charpentier?
Gustave Charpentier Gustave Charpentier (] ; 25 June 1860 – 18 February 1956) was a French composer, best known for his opera "Louise".
Beethoven and his contemporaries During the course of his lifetime (1770–1827), Ludwig van Beethoven enjoyed relationships with many of his musical contemporaries. Beethoven was famously difficult to get along with, and the history of his relationships with contemporaries is littered with arguments, misunderstandings, and reconciliations. Beethoven had well-known fallings out with his one-time teacher, Joseph Haydn, with the piano virtuoso and composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel, and the German composer Carl Maria von Weber.