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Beethoven Hall (1874–78) was an auditorium in Boston, Massachusetts, that hosted musical performances and other entertainments in the 1870s. It sat on Washington Street, near Boylston Street, in today's Boston Theater District/Chinatown neighborhood. The architect was William Washburn, who had also designed the first National Theatre and the second Tremont Temple.

In 1879 the renovated hall re-opened as the Park Theatre. The building survived until 1990, when it was razed.

Performances

• Annie de Montford, mesmerist
• Charlotte Cushman
• Mrs. Adelia Dauncey Maskell ("celebrated English Star Reader")
• Berger Family and Sol Smith Russell
• Buckley's Serenaders
• Callender's Georgia Minstrels
• Marius Cazeneuve's "grand soirees of prestidigitation and anti-spiritualistic seances"
• Buffalo Bill combination
• Tomasi's Grand Juvenile English Opera
• Brown's Brigade Band
• Lingards and Company
• G.B. Bunnell's "living human wonders from the New American Museum, New York City"

References

1. Dwight's journal of music, Oct. 17, 1874
2. Boston business directory. 1879
3. City of Boston: Report of the Inspector of Buildings for the Year 1874 (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1875)
4. Moses King (1881), Kings Handbook of Boston, M. King, OCLC 778544, OL 23442502M
5. Sweeney, Emily. Once a relic of the past, earthy art form sees a revival. Boston Globe, 09 April 2009
6. Boston Daily Globe, Nov. 18, 1874
7. Boston Daily Globe, Sept. 30, 1874
8. Boston Daily Globe, 5 February, 1876
9. Boston Daily Globe, 5 February, 1876
10. Boston Daily Globe, Sept. 20, 1875
11. Edward Le Roy Rice (1911), Monarchs of minstrelsy, from "Daddy" Rice to date, New York city, N.Y: Kenny publishing company, OL 6527294M
12. Boston Daily Globe, 5 April, 1877
13. Milbourne Christopher. Magic: A Picture History. USA: Courier Dover Publications, 1991
14. Boston Evening Transcript, January 13, 1877
15. Boston Daily Globe, January 24, 1877
16. Boston Daily Globe, Nov. 17, 1877
17. Boston Daily Globe, April 19, 1878
18. Boston Daily Globe, March 9, 1878

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List of compositions
Life	Birthplace Relationship with contemporaries Mozart Death Heiligenstadt Testament Immortal Beloved Concert of 22 December 1808
Music	Relationship with C minor Collected edition Musical style Compositional method Works catalogs WoO Biamonti Catalogue
Memorials	Beethoven Hall Beethovenhalle Beethoven House List of sculptures Berlin Bonn Mexico City New York and San Francisco
Depictions	Mähler's portraits Beethoven with the Manuscript of the Missa Solemnis Eroica (1949 film) Immortal Beloved (1994 film) Eroica (2003 film) Copying Beethoven (2006 film) Other films
Family	Johann (father) Maria (mother) Kaspar (brother) Johann (brother) Ludwig (grandfather) Johanna (sister-in-law) Karl (nephew)
Related	1815 Beethoven Birthplace of Beethoven's mother Beethoven Peninsula Beethoven quadrangle / Beethoven crater Beethoven Burst Beethoven Frieze Beethoven Project Trio Beethoven Quartet Society British première of Symphony No. 9 Eroica Peninsula Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies Three Bs
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