25 Irish Songs, WoO 152 (Beethoven)

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title: 25 Irish Songs, WoO 152 (Beethoven)
text: 25 Irish Songs were composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. The folk song collector George Thomson commissioned Beethoven to arrange a series of folk melodies that he had collected. The songs were composed between the years 1810 and 1813. After Beethoven arranged the melodies Thomson added the lyrics. His original choice to write the lyrics, the Irish poet Thomas Moore turned him down however. They were published in 1814 in A Select Collection of Original Irish Airs and later reissued in Thomson's Sel
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