The Jesuits are | | near Zurich, in Switzerland, died expelled from | | 1836. Promoter of popular singing Prussia (1817). | | societies, composer of vocal music, | | and author of instruction books on The Mahratta | | singing, etc. war in Hindustan. | | | | Steam applied to | | printing in the | | _Times_ office | | (1814). | | | | The Marquess of | | Hastings renders | | British | | influence universal | | in India (1817). | | | | The Island of | | Singapore is formed | | into a British | | BEETHOVEN (LUDWIG VAN), born settlement by Sir | | 1770 at Bonn, died 1827. An Opera, Stamford Raffles | | 2 dramas with music, a melodrama, (1818). | | several single dramatic choruses and Reunion of the | | songs, an Oratorio, 2 Masses, 9 Lutheran and | | symphonies, 11 overtures, a septett, 7 other reformed | | concertos for pianoforte, a violin forms of worship | | concerto, 2 violin quintetts, 17 in several | | violin quartetts, 5 violin trios, 35 parts of Germany | | solo sonatas for the pianoforte, 10 (1818). | | sonatas for pianoforte and violin, 6 | | sonatas for pianoforte and Voyage to the | | violoncello, 7 trios for pianoforte, Polar Sea by | | violin, and violoncello, a pianoforte Parry (1819). | | quintett, a great many other | | pianoforte compositions, cantatas, Parry undertakes | | songs with pianoforte accompaniment, another voyage | | etc. to reach | | the North Pole | | In 1793 Beethoven came to Vienna as (1820). | | Virtuoso on the pianoforte, and | | distinguished himself by his | | improvisations; in 1795 he published George IV., King | | his first important work, the three of Great | | pianoforte trios, Op. 1; in 1799 Britain, son of | | appeared his first symphony; in 1804 George III. | | his Opera 'Leonore' (Fidelio); in 1809 (1820). | | his symphony in C Minor and his | | pastoral symphony; in 1814 his A Major Guizot, French | | symphony; in 1818 his ninth symphony.