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Concert: Archduke Rudolph, Beethoven’s Pupil and Patron
Concert: Archduke Rudolph, Beethoven’s Pupil and Patron
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, piano, Korbinian Altenberger, violin, Na-Young Baek, cello. Illustrated talk by Ignat Solzhenitsyn. The most significant of Beethoven’s noble patrons during his years in Vienna was Archduke Rudolph of Austria, youngest brother of the Emperor Franz. Beethoven began teaching Rudolph piano in around 1803–04, and the archduke later became his sole composition student. He was also the only one…