Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (188 results returned)

#9062, aired 2024-03-19CLASSICAL MUSIC IS IN SESSION $1600: The New York Times called this piece with a name in the title "Beethoven's trifle... featured on Baby Einstein albums" "Für Elise"
#1, aired 2024-01-12STOP! $600: In the early 1790s Haydn stopped in Bonn, Germany & met this young musical genius who would become Haydn's pupil Ludwig van Beethoven
#8950, aired 2023-10-13WE WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK $600: Our bandleader whistles while you work to name this composer heard here Beethoven
#8943, aired 2023-10-04ART, FOR ART'S SAKE $200: Joseph Karl Stieler's early 19th century portrait of this man captures his energy & ferocity Beethoven
#8943, aired 2023-10-04MERRY MELODIES $1200: This ode by Friedrich von Schiller is set to music in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony "Ode To Joy"
#8896, aired 2023-06-19LET'S MAKE A MOVIE CROSSOVER! $1600: An Alan Rickman "Die Hard" villain "wants those detonators" from a title Great Dane of 2002! Hans Gruber and Scooby-Doo
#8890, aired 2023-06-09PETS ON FILM $1,000 (Daily Double): The title of this 2003 film about a big dog is also a symphony that premiered in 1808 in Vienna Beethoven's 5th
#19, aired 2023-05-24WHAT'S ALL THIS? $400: 4 movements, including the "Ode To Joy" Beethoven's 9th
#8793, aired 2023-01-25CLASSICAL IS IN $1200: This man's only opera, "Fidelio", takes place in a Spanish prison, not a German one Beethoven
#8667, aired 2022-06-21I DON'T HEAR A SYMPHONY $1200: Beethoven's "Kreutzer" is not a symphony but one of these "S" works for violin & piano a sonata
#8648, aired 2022-05-25THE ONE BEFORE THE FAMOUS ONE $400: Composed in 1806, it doesn't have a famous opening like the next one does, but it's fun anyway Beethoven's Fourth Symphony
#8640, aired 2022-05-13OPERA $1200: Beethoven's only opera, it enjoyed little early success, as Vienna was occupied by French troops during its premiere Fidelio
#8616, aired 2022-04-11SYMPHON"E"s $1000: Disillusioned with Napoleon, Beethoven changed the title of his landmark 3rd symphony from "Bonaparte" to this Eroica
#18, aired 2022-02-22CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: In 2021 Yo-Yo Ma & Emanuel Ax released an album of Beethoven's complete works for piano & this instrument cello
#8560, aired 2022-01-21SYMPHONIES $400: During World War II Allied Radio used 4 notes from this Beethoven symphony to boost morale--they represent "V" for victory Beethoven's Fifth
#8475, aired 2021-09-24NO. 5 $200: Here's a Fifth served up by this musician & completed in 1808 Beethoven
#8410, aired 2021-05-28PHILHARMONIC CONVERGENCE $1000: Featuring works like the "Emperor" concerto, in 2020-'21 the London philharmonic honors this composer's 250th birthday Beethoven
#8397, aired 2021-05-11CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: Beethoven's Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor is better known as this, after the inscription on the autograph score "Für Elise"
#8351, aired 2021-03-08COMPOSERS $400: Beethoven hadn't written a symphony in 10 years when England's Royal Philharmonic Society commissioned this last one in 1822 the Ninth Symphony
#8341, aired 2021-02-22HAMBURGERS $1200: Born in Hamburg in 1833, he rose from his humble beginnings, to become one of the three B's of classical music (Johannes) Brahms
#8282, aired 2020-11-17MUSICAL VIENNA $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from outside the Vienna State Opera House in Vienna, Austria.) Damaged by World War II bombs, the State Opera House reopened with a production of this Beethoven opera in November, 1955, 150 years to the month of the work's premiere Fidelio
#8231, aired 2020-06-08"ROCK" &/OR "ROLL" SONGS $400: Chuck Berry's impossible 1956 title request of Ludwig van while "rockin' in 2 by 2" "Roll Over Beethoven"
#8202, aired 2020-04-14CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: Don't turn up the volume in the third movement of Beethoven's Fifth; Ludwig does that for you with this gradual musical move a crescendo
#8147, aired 2020-01-282020 ANNIVERSARIES $4,600 (Daily Double): In 2020 this composer's birth city of Bonn & surrounding areas are celebrating his 250th birthday all year long Beethoven
#8116, aired 2019-12-16SPARK JOY $200: Schiller's "Ode To Joy" sparked joy for this composer who used it for the choral movement of his "Ninth Symphony" Beethoven
#8077, aired 2019-10-22CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: Of all Beethoven's works with nicknames, one of the few that Ludwig okayed was this sonata, French for emotional or moving "Pathétique"
#8046, aired 2019-09-09THE 1820s $800: In 1824 this symphony premiered at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
#7977, aired 2019-04-23MERCURY $8,200 (Daily Double): While the planet Mercury doesn't have rings or moons, it's full of these with names like Bach, Beethoven & Tolstoy craters
#7951, aired 2019-03-18CLASSICAL MUSIC PRODIGIES $2000: At 10 this "Saint"ly composer gave a Paris recital & took requests for any of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas he'd memorized Camille Saint-Saens
#7934, aired 2019-02-21HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS GREAT COMPOSERS $400: (Hershey Felder presents from the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.) Perhaps music's most famous motif is often said to represent fate knocking, but others attribute the opening of this work to the deaf Beethoven feeling the vibrations of a little bird tapping on a tree Beethoven's 5th
#7917, aired 2019-01-29HAMBURGERS $3,000 (Daily Double): This Hamburger was a virtuoso pianist as well as one of the 19th century's great composers Johannes Brahms
#7861, aired 2018-11-12MUSIC CLASS $1000: Instrumental, not vocal music is on offer with this type of classical work; Beethoven's "Moonlight" one is pretty good a sonata
#7818, aired 2018-09-12OR BUST $400: Here's a bust of this German composer, who the sculptor said was listening to God Beethoven
#7674, aired 2018-01-11VINYL RESTING PLACE $400: One of the first LP records pressed in 1931 was of the Philadelphia Orchestra playing this work Beethoven's Fifth
#7478, aired 2017-03-01TAKE ME OUT TO THE CLASSICAL MUSIC GAME $200: ...& we'll head to the middle of the Fifth... this composer's Fifth, actually Beethoven
#7445, aired 2017-01-13COMPOSERS $1200: The Beethoven-Haus, the composer's birthplace, is a museum in this city Bonn
#7384, aired 2016-10-20MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU $1000: Robert Schumann called this man's 1807 Fourth Symphony "a slender Greek maiden between two Norse giants" Beethoven
#7374, aired 2016-10-06125 YEARS OF CARNEGIE HALL $800: In 1964, the Beatles brought rock 'n' roll to Carnegie Hall & opened with this song that's a bit cheeky to a great composer "Roll Over Beethoven"
#7209, aired 2016-01-07NINTH WAVE $4,000 (Daily Double): At the 1824 premiere of this work, the musicians & choir were told to ignore the conductor Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
#7136, aired 2015-09-28ODE ON A $1200: Vocalists sing this Schiller poem at the end of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony "Ode To Joy"
#7032, aired 2015-03-24DOG STARS $1200: A St. Bernard, joining Charles Grodin's litter Beethoven
#6970, aired 2014-12-263 DIMENSIONAL $1200: There are 8 of these on a Steinway grand, but only 3 in a grouping of composers made up by Hans von Bulow B's
#6900, aired 2014-09-19MUSIC TERMS $800: This term originally denoted a composition to be played on instruments, not sung; Beethoven's "Moonlight" is one a sonata
#6842, aired 2014-05-20THE MUSEUMS OF EUROPE $3,000 (Daily Double): Exhibits in this composer's Bonn home include his grand piano & a variety of ear trumpets Beethoven
#6838, aired 2014-05-14THE LOVELY GERMAN LANGUAGE $2000: The "Ode to Joy" in Beethoven's 9th says, "Freude, schöner" this zwölf-letter word meaning "divine sparks" Götterfunken
#6754, aired 2014-01-16BEETHOVEN $200: An 1800 letter is the first to mention Ludwig's loss of this; oil of almonds wasn't helping hearing
#6754, aired 2014-01-16BEETHOVEN $400: Beethoven's final public concert was a performance of this final symphony 9th
#6617, aired 2013-05-28MUSIC & LITERATURE $400: Many forgotten composers set Schiller's "Ode To Joy" to music before this man showed how in his 9th symphony Beethoven
#6568, aired 2013-03-20OF THE NINTH $400: This musical masterpiece premiered May 7, 1824 Beethoven's Ninth
#6403, aired 2012-06-20CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: You can hear why Beethoven's 1806 sonata has this Italian nickname containing the word "passion" the Appassionata
#6289, aired 2012-01-12DID YOU GET THE NUMBER OF THAT SYMPHONY? $200: Beethoven's dramatic middle one the Fifth
#6254, aired 2011-11-24CLASSICAL ROCK $800: This composer's symphony that glorified the ideal of human brotherhood is re-imagined here Beethoven
#6052, aired 2010-12-28MERRY MELODIES $800: This ode by Friedrich von Schiller is set to music in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony "Ode To Joy"
#6023, aired 2010-11-17CLASSICAL MUSIC $600: "All creatures drink of joy at nature's breast" is from a verse used in an 1824 symphony by this man Beethoven
#6010, aired 2010-10-29CHAMBER MUSIC $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands with a string quartet at the Julliard School in New York.) One of Beethoven's best-known works would be the "Bridgetower Sonata" if Ludwig & violinist Bridgetower hadn't quarreled over a girl; instead, it's this sonata the Kreutzer Sonata
#5910, aired 2010-04-30DISCO! DUCK! $2000: Walter Murphy's "A Fifth Of" this guy paired classical music with a disco beat Beethoven
#5891, aired 2010-04-05BEETHOVEN'S $200: ...primary performing instrument was this; he wrote 32 sonatas for it the piano
#5891, aired 2010-04-05BEETHOVEN'S $400: ...hometown, it was West Germany's capital from 1949 to 1990 Bonn
#5891, aired 2010-04-05BEETHOVEN'S $600: ...teacher in the early 1790s was this "Papa" Haydn
#5891, aired 2010-04-05BEETHOVEN'S $1000: ...first public performance came at the age of 7, in this "fragrant" city Cologne
#5891, aired 2010-04-05BEETHOVEN'S $2,000 (Daily Double): ...letters addressed to an unidentified lover gave a 1994 film this title Immortal Beloved
#5876, aired 2010-03-15CLASSICAL TV THEMES $800: The evening newscast by Chet Huntley & this partner used Beethoven's 9th for its theme (David) Brinkley
#5809, aired 2009-12-10STOP! $600: In the early 1790s Haydn stopped in Bonn, Germany & met this young musical genius who would become Haydn's pupil Beethoven
#5724, aired 2009-06-25CLASSICAL WORKS' OTHER NAMES $400: It wasn't until 9 years after Beethoven's death that his piano sonata in C-sharp minor got this nickname the "Moonlight Sonata"
#5591, aired 2008-12-22THE SOUND OF MUSIC $800: Beethoven's first piano concerto includes this effect in which the pianist slides his finger along a series of keys a glissando
#5581, aired 2008-12-08BEETHOVEN'S GOTTA LOTTA SONATAS $400: This nickname of a Beethoven sonata comes from a reviewer who said it reminded him of Lake Lucerne at night Moonlight Sonata
#5581, aired 2008-12-08BEETHOVEN'S GOTTA LOTTA SONATAS $800: Beethoven's piano sonata in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2, has this name for its stormy character, not the Shakespeare play Tempest
#5581, aired 2008-12-08BEETHOVEN'S GOTTA LOTTA SONATAS $1200: The violin sonata in F, Op. 24, has a happy, relaxed mood, earning it this seasonal nickname the Spring Sonata
#5581, aired 2008-12-08BEETHOVEN'S GOTTA LOTTA SONATAS $1600: This name for Beethoven's piano sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, is just sad Pathetique
#5581, aired 2008-12-08BEETHOVEN'S GOTTA LOTTA SONATAS $2000: Beethoven's piano sonata in F Minor, Op. 57, has this nickname, Italian for "with intense feeling" Appassionata
#5580, aired 2008-12-05SYMPHONIES ON FILM $400: The Philadelphia Orchestra played Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony" for this 1940 Disney film Fantasia
#5470, aired 2008-05-23MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $200: This bent steel rod struck by a small metal rod is used in the final movement of Beethoven's Ninth a triangle
#5376, aired 2008-01-14CAN I GET YOUR NUMBER? $1600: Beethoven's odd-numbered symphonies are his most famous, including this one heard here 7th
#5364, aired 2007-12-27"LOVE" IS A BATTLEFIELD $400: Dear to the heart; Beethoven's was "immortal" beloved
#5331, aired 2007-11-12GIRLS OF SONG $800: No one's really sure who this title girl is in the piece heard here Elise
#5308, aired 2007-10-10HOW PRECIOUS! $400: San Jose State University's Beethoven Center has brown, grey & white strands of this that once grew on Ludwig hair
#5240, aired 2007-05-25COMPOSERS $1200: Beethoven said this great predecessor's name, which means "brook", should really be Meer, meaning "sea" Bach
#5102, aired 2006-11-14MUSIC $800: Beethoven's "Creatures of Prometheus" is music to accompany this type of performance a ballet
#5043, aired 2006-07-12FILL IN THE OPERATIC BLANK $2000: Beethoven: "____" Fidelio
#5031, aired 2006-06-26THREE ON A MATCH $800: The 3 B's of classical music Bach, Brahms & Beethoven
#4972, aired 2006-04-04OPERA $2,000 (Daily Double): Fragments of the "Ode to Joy" appear in the libretto of this 1805 opera, the composer's only one Fidelio
#4886, aired 2005-12-05ART FOR ART'S SAKE $200: Joseph Karl Stieler's early 19th-century portrait of this man captures his energy & ferocity Beethoven
#4883, aired 2005-11-30MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): Beethoven's "Solemnis" is this type of religious work a mass
#4868, aired 2005-11-09LET'S TALK ABOUT SIX $400: His Sixth Symphony was termed the "Pastoral" Beethoven
#4791, aired 2005-06-06THAT'S JUST CLASSIC! $400: About half of Liszt's work was transcribing others' works, like Beethoven's symphonies, for this instrument the piano
#4785, aired 2005-05-27SO, WHATCHA COMPOSIN'? $1200: 1802: What's that you say? I said, whatcha composin'? Oh, the "Kreutzer" sonata Beethoven
#4779, aired 2005-05-19SYMPHONIES $400: Wagner called Beethoven's 7th "The apotheosis of" this, & Isadora Duncan interpreted it in this form the dance
#4738, aired 2005-03-23ROLL OVER, BEETHOVEN $400: "By the time" this work "is over, fate has been trampled underfoot by triumphant music" the Fifth Symphony
#4738, aired 2005-03-23ROLL OVER, BEETHOVEN $1200: It's the popular name of the piece heard here "The Moonlight Sonata"
#4738, aired 2005-03-23ROLL OVER, BEETHOVEN $1600: Beethoven's Bagatelle in A Minor for Piano was eventually titled "Fur" her Elise
#4737, aired 2005-03-22GERMAN COMPOSERS $1200: When his brother Kaspar died in 1815, he became co-guardian of Kaspar's 9-year-old son Karl Beethoven
#4663, aired 2004-12-08I HEAR A SYMPHONY $1200: Beethoven's 6th isn't called the "Bucolic" symphony, but this Pastoral
#4656, aired 2004-11-29CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: Beethoven's father tried to promote him as a child prodigy, like this Salzburg-born genius Mozart
#4578, aired 2004-06-30COMPOSERS $800: His "Goldberg Variations" were originally designed to help an insomniac nobleman sleep J.S. Bach
#4525, aired 2004-04-16"B" PREPARED $800: He's the composer whose work is heard here Beethoven
#4475, aired 2004-02-06MUSICAL NUMBERS $1200: It's the 1976 No. 1 pop hit heard here "A Fifth of Beethoven"
#4431, aired 2003-12-08CLASSICAL CLASSICS $400: His odd-numbered symphonies tend to be weighty; the evens, like 1814's Eighth, more jolly Beethoven
#4354, aired 2003-07-03I LOVE A PIANO $1600: At the 2001 MTV Music Awards, this appropriately name pianist pounded out Beethoven's "Fur Elise" Alicia Keys
#4333, aired 2003-06-04FIND THE STATE $1200: Fidelio was Beethoven's only opera (but has it played in Dubuque?) Iowa
#4332, aired 2003-06-03COMPOSERS $400: He's the tempestous genius seen here Ludwig van Beethoven
#4231, aired 2003-01-13MINOR CLASSICS $400: Though minor keys often suggest sadness, this work in D minor contains an ode to joy "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony"
#4171, aired 2002-10-21COMPOSERS $400: Of the 3 B's of classical music, the one born last Johannes Brahms
#4010, aired 2002-01-25CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: Beethoven's "Piano Sonata in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27", is best known by this name which he never approved of "Moonlight Sonata"
#3981, aired 2001-12-17CLASSICAL CLASSICS $2000: This man's sixth symphony is known as the Pastoral Symphony Beethoven
#3963, aired 2001-11-21COMPOSE YOURSELF! $400: This major German composed the overture in C major heard here J.S. Bach
#3911, aired 2001-09-10LONG GERMAN WORDS $400: Freude is this to which Beethoven composed an ode; Schadenfreude is this at someone else's misfortune joy
#3888, aired 2001-06-27ITALIAN MUSICAL TERMS $1000: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony begins "with vigor", allegro con this Brio
#3879, aired 2001-06-14BEETHOVEN $200: Beethoven supposedly said of this work's opening, "Thus fate knocks at the door" "5th Symphony"
#3864, aired 2001-05-24ROCK ME, AMADEUS $1,500 (Daily Double): Composer whose name completes the title of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera "Mozart and..." Salieri
#3862, aired 2001-05-22THE ONE & ONLY $1000: Subtitled "Conjugal Love", it was Beethoven's one & only opera Fidelio
#3853, aired 2001-05-09THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA $800: The orchestra's first concert at the Academy of Music, its home 1900-2001, featured this man's 1805 Fifth Symphony Ludwig van Beethoven
#3798, aired 2001-02-21COMPOSERS & THEIR WORKS $100: Beethoven wrote a battle symphony celebrating this duke's victory over Napoleon the Duke of Wellington
#3704, aired 2000-10-12THE "MINOR"s $1000: It's the key of Beethoven's famous Fifth Symphony C Minor
#3695, aired 2000-09-29MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $200: This bent steel rod struck by a small metal rod is used in the final movement of Beethoven's Ninth Triangle
#3660, aired 2000-06-30"JOY" SHTICK $400: This poem by Friedrich von Schiller was the basis for the choral finale of Beethoven's 9th Symphony "Ode to Joy"
#3658, aired 2000-06-28CLASSICAL MUSIC $300: The 1815 death of his brother Caspar led to a long struggle for custody of Caspar's son Karl Ludwig van Beethoven
#3651, aired 2000-06-19ALSO AT THE 2000 GRAMMYS $200: The Best Chamber Music Performance was this German's sonatas with Lambert Orkis, not Schroeder, on piano Beethoven
#3497, aired 1999-11-16POTPOURRI $1000: His Ninth Symphony includes the "Ode to Joy"; his opera "Fidelio" includes "O Nameless Joy" Beethoven
#3447, aired 1999-09-07CLASSICAL MUSIC $200: This German composer's 5th Symphony in C Minor has a famous opening Ludwig van Beethoven
#3347, aired 1999-03-09WHICH CAME FIRST? $300: Rachmaninoff's 2nd, Beethoven's 5th, Schubert's 7th, Mozart's 41st Mozart's 41st
#3346, aired 1999-03-08FILM BIOGRAPHIES $1000: Among the film portrayals of Beethoven are Ewald Balser's in 1949's "Eroica" & Gary Oldman's in this 1994 film Immortal Beloved
#3293, aired 1998-12-23"JOY" TO THE WORLD $500: It's the rousing musical composition heard here "Ode To Joy" (from Beethoven's 9th)
#3220, aired 1998-09-11MUSIC POTPOURRI $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1772 he composed his Symphony No. 17 in G Minor, K-129 Wolfgang A. Mozart
#3213, aired 1998-07-15BY 2000 $300: British musicologist Jonathan Del Mar hopes to have fully restored this composer's 9 symphonies Ludwig van Beethoven
#3131, aired 1998-03-23PUNCHLINE $500: It explains why music played backwards is coming from Beethoven's grave he's decomposing
#3117, aired 1998-03-03MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD $600: One highlight of this capital's Magyar Nemzeti Muzeum is a piano used by Beethoven Budapest
#3097, aired 1998-02-03THE 3 Bs $200: Of the three B's, he's the one who composed the following: Brahms
#3097, aired 1998-02-03THE 3 Bs $500: Beethoven's only opera, based on J.N. Bouilly's "Leonore", it premiered in 1805 "Fidelio"
#3091, aired 1998-01-26ENDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Symphony whose ending is heard here; its opening is more famous Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
#2954, aired 1997-06-05COMPOSERS $200: Carl Czerny was just 15 when he began teaching in this Austrian city; Beethoven's nephew was among his pupils Vienna
#2896, aired 1997-03-17COMPOSERS $200: The sixth of this German's 9 symphonies is nicknamed "Pastoral" Ludwig van Beethoven
#2871, aired 1997-02-10CINEMA SEQUELS $300: We'll be doggone if Charles Grodin didn't return for this 1993 sequel about a St. Bernard Beethoven's 2nd
#2791, aired 1996-10-21OPERA $800: Beethoven wrote 16 versions of the hero's entrance in this opera & we still don't know if he's satisfied "Fidelio"
#2587, aired 1995-11-28COMPOSERS ON FILM $400: In 1994's "Immortal Beloved", Gary Oldman portrayed this composer Beethoven
#2568, aired 1995-11-01COMPOSERS $200: This composer's deafness may have been caused by syphilis Beethoven
#2426, aired 1995-03-06OPERA $1000: When Gustav Mahler presented this Beethoven opera, he set its first scene in Rocco's kitchen Fidelio
#2375, aired 1994-12-23DECEMBER 25 $500 (Daily Double): In 1989 Bernstein conducted Beethoven's 9th at a celebration of this landmark's destruction the Berlin Wall
#2336, aired 1994-10-31COMPOSERS $200: In many of his works, Charles Ives quoted the "Fate Motive" from this German's famous 5th symphony Beethoven
#2233, aired 1994-04-27POTPOURRI $100: Of the three Bs, the one who's Schroeder's personal favorite in "Peanuts" Beethoven
#2215, aired 1994-04-01COMPOSERS $400: He took the text for his choral Ninth Symphony from Schiller's ode "An Die Freude" Beethoven
#2149, aired 1993-12-30MUSIC $300: Beethoven's "Sonata Quasi una Fantasia" is usually known by this "lunar" name the "Moonlight Sonata"
#2083, aired 1993-09-29FAMOUS FIRSTS $300: The 1st 33 1/3 rpm long-playing record featured this composer's Fifth Symphony conducted by L. Stokowksi Beethoven
#2027, aired 1993-06-01CLASSICAL MUSIC $200: This composer's deafness was confessed to his brothers in the "Heiligenstadt Testament" Beethoven
#2000, aired 1993-04-23CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: This Viennese lieder composer was a torchbearer at Beethoven's funeral on March 29, 1827 Schubert
#1952, aired 1993-02-16COMPOSERS $200: He tried to get sole guardianship of his nephew Karl Beethoven after his brother Caspar's death Ludwig van Beethoven
#1892, aired 1992-11-24MUSIC $600: Examples of these poems set to music include Schoenberg's "to Napoleon" & Beethoven's "to Joy" odes
#1782, aired 1992-05-05INVENTORS $200: Johann Maelzel, a friend of Beethoven's, patented a device that enabled dolls to do this speak
#1770, aired 1992-04-17MUSIC $1000: This city's 1st school centered around Beethoven, Haydn & Mozart, the 2nd around Berg, Webern & Schoenberg Vienna
#1695, aired 1992-01-03COMPOSERS $800: Hailed as Beethoven's successor, his first symphony in 1876 was dubbed by one pianist "The Tenth" Brahms
#1662, aired 1991-11-19DISCO $100: Walter Murphy added a funky beat to this composer's Fifth Symphony Beethoven
#1659, aired 1991-11-14HISTORIC TRIOS $200: In music history, they're known as "The Three B's" Bach, Brahms & Beethoven
#1611, aired 1991-09-09MUSICAL QUOTES $500: This composer's last words were said to be these poignant ones, "I shall hear in heaven" Beethoven
#1582, aired 1991-06-18CLASSICAL MUSIC $2,700 (Daily Double): This popular title for Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op. 57 is Italian for "with intense feeling" “Appassionata”
#1476, aired 1991-01-21CLASSICAL MUSIC $600: Beethoven's "Piano Sonata in C sharp minor" is better known by this title "The Moonlight Sonata"
#1468, aired 1991-01-09WORLD WAR II $800: The British public morale-building "V for Victory" campaign used this work's first four notes Beethoven's 5th
#1428, aired 1990-11-14MUSIC $600: Beethoven set this F. von Schiller work to music for the Ninth Symphony's choral movement "Ode To Joy"
#1402, aired 1990-10-09WORLD CAPITALS $400: Beethoven's home in this West German capital is now a museum Bonn
#1289, aired 1990-03-22CLASSICAL MUSIC $600 (Daily Double): Most people know its first 4 notes; these are its last notes: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
#1186, aired 1989-10-30BEETHOVEN $400: Beethoven's pupils included Rudolf, who was archduke & brother of this country's emperor Austria
#1164, aired 1989-09-28CLASSICAL MUSIC $800 (Daily Double): For the 1991-2 bicentennial of this composer's death, 800 of his works will be performed at Lincoln Center W.A. Mozart
#1046, aired 1989-03-06COMPOSERS $1000: This "Father of the Symphony" was a pal of Mozart's & taught Beethoven Haydn
#1013, aired 1989-01-18THE 3 "B"s $400: Beethoven wrote the famous "Heiligenstadt Testament" in 1802, describing this disability deafness
#1013, aired 1989-01-18THE 3 "B"s $800: The "B" who wrote the "Egmont Overture" Beethoven
#1001, aired 1989-01-02CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: Under this title, Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.14 in C# minor could go in the astronomy category the Moonlight Sonata
#971, aired 1988-11-21COMPOSERS $600: "I shall hear in heaven", this composer said, but he died in 1827 saying, "Too bad! Too bad! It's too late!" Beethoven
#885, aired 1988-06-10GERMAN COMPOSERS $200: Beethoven's birthplace, now the capital of West Germany Bonn
#857, aired 1988-05-03MUSIC $100: It's the Beethoven symphony with the highest opus number, 125 the 9th
#794, aired 1988-02-04MUSICAL JEWELRY $500: In "Kismet", the 3 "B's" refer not to Bach, Beethoven & Brahms, but to this song title "Baubles, Bangles & Beads"
#743, aired 1987-11-25CLASSICAL MUSIC $600: Beethoven may have included one of these in his 3rd symphony, but we're not giving him Sousa's crown March
#704, aired 1987-10-01COMPOSERS $200: This, Beethoven's last symphony, was premiered after only 2 rehearsals 9th
#661, aired 1987-06-22CLASSICAL MUSIC $500: Common name of Beethoven's 6th Symphony -- you know, the one about the shepherds the Pastoral Symphony
#650, aired 1987-06-05EASY OPERA $100: Of "the three B's", the only one who composed an opera Beethoven
#627, aired 1987-05-05CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: Beethoven work containing Schiller's "Ode to Joy" the Ninth Symphony
#592, aired 1987-03-17TAKE A GUESS $300: Circuit City's TV ads featured this deaf 18th century composer recommending their stereos Beethoven
#532, aired 1986-12-23POP INSTRUMENTALS $800: Working with only a "fraction" of the material, Walter Murphy made it to #1 with this piece in '76 Beethoven's 5th
#500, aired 1986-11-07RITUALS $700 (Daily Double): A new ritual in Japan is the singing of this song in German to ring out the old year: "Freude, schöner Götterfunken, / Tochter aus Elysium..." (Beethoven's) the "Ode To Joy"
#498, aired 1986-11-05MILITARY MELODIES $400: Tchaikovsky's overture uses cannons; this great German's 1813 "Wellington's Victory" uses musket fire Beethoven
#497, aired 1986-11-04MUSIC $400: It refers to the key & meter signals at the beginning of the composition, not Beethoven's autograph a signature
#489, aired 1986-10-23PEANUTS $100: Schroeder never forgets to celebrate this historic December 16th birthday Beethoven's birthday
#422, aired 1986-04-22COMPOSERS $200: Composers known as “the 3 B’s” Bach, Beethoven & Brahms
#358, aired 1986-01-22CLASSICAL MUSIC $600: At 85, Toscanini conducted Beethoven's 9th his last time with this network's symphony NBC
#276, aired 1985-09-30"ROCK" & "ROLL" SONGS $300: Chuck Berry's way of saying "Step aside, Ludwig" "Roll Over Beethoven"
#270, aired 1985-09-20WORLD CAPITALS $200: Beethoven's birthplace, it's now West Germany's capital Bonn
#172, aired 1985-05-07COMPOSERS $400: His 9th Symphony's "Ode To Joy" was featured in The Beatles' movie "Help" Beethoven
#128, aired 1985-03-06WORLD CITIES $300: "The Musician's Holy City", home at one time to Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms & the Strausses, etc. Vienna
#117, aired 1985-02-19LITERATURE $1000: A Tolstoy short story was based on this composer's "Kreutzer Sonata" Beethoven
#43, aired 1984-11-07BELONGS TO $1,300 (Daily Double): Symphony you can name in just these 4 notes Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
#15, aired 1984-09-28THE COMICS $500: Peanuts' Schroeder celebrates it every December 16 Beethoven's birthday

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (6 results returned)

#7647, aired 2017-12-0519th CENTURY EUROPE: This 1814-1815 gathering of leaders prompted Beethoven to compose the cantata "The Glorious Moment" the Congress of Vienna
#7087, aired 2015-06-09HUMANITIES & HISTORY: Echoing the Morse code for V, in WWII the BBC's "V for Victory" campaign used this classical work as a theme Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
#5429, aired 2008-03-27CLASSICAL MUSICIANS: In 1793, Haydn wrote he will be "one of Europe's finest composers, & I shall be proud to be called his teacher" Ludwig van Beethoven
#4823, aired 2005-07-20CLASSICAL MUSIC: It's the roughly 70-minute work that includes the sung words "Alle menschen werden bruder" Beethoven's 9th Symphony
#2433, aired 1995-03-15CLASSICAL MUSIC: The first 4 notes of this 1808 work supposedly represent fate knocking at the door Beethoven's 5th Symphony
#1831, aired 1992-07-13OPERA: Operas by Rossini, Bizet & Beethoven are set in or near this city Seville

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