Ferdinand Ries is most often remembered today for his published reminiscences of his friend and teacher, Beethoven, co-authored with Franz Wegeler. But he was best known during his lifetime as a consummate
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During the Napoleonic era, nearly every significant composer who lived and worked in Vienna wrote at least some political music in service to the Austrian state and Francis [Franz] II(1768-1835), the last