Count Ferdinand Ernst Gabriel von Waldstein

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Count Ferdinand Ernst Gabriel von Waldstein was one of Beethoven's early patrons in Bonn. Beethoven dedicated Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op.53 to him.[1]

He was obsessed with the idea of defeating Napoleon's army, and squandered all his money raising an army with which to do so.[2]

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  1. ^ Mintz, 188.
  2. ^ Suchet, "Beethoven's patrons - Count Waldstein."

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