Question: Who has more best-known compositions, Hans Pfitzner or Ludwig van Beethoven?
Context: Wilhelm von Lenz (born 20 May 1809 in Riga - died 7 January 1883 in Saint Petersburg) was a Baltic German Russian official and writer.  Wilhelm von Lenz was a friend of many mid-century Romantic composers, including Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin and Hector Berlioz, Lenz's most important and influential work was an early biography of the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven, entitled "Beethoven et ses trois styles" (1855), written in response to the disparagement of Beethoven by Alexander Ulybyshev in his "Nouvelle biographie de Mozart" (1843).  Lenz promoted the idea (already suggested by earlier figures such as François-Joseph Fétis) that Beethoven's musical style be divided into three characteristic periods.  Lenz's periodisation, with minor changes, is still widely used today by musicologists in discussing Beethoven's compositions. Das Christ-Elflein ("The Little Elf of Christ") is an opera in two acts by Hans Pfitzner to a German-language libretto by Pfitzner and Ilse von Stach.  The work was originally premiered in 1906 as a Christmas play by von Stach with incidental music by Pfitzner.  It was later revised by the composer into a two-act opera (the version performed today) which premiered in Dresden on 11 December 1917. Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist.  His best known work is the post-Romantic opera "Palestrina", loosely based on the life of the sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Ludwig van Beethoven ( , ; ] ; baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.  A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers.  His best-known compositions include 9 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, 1 violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, his great Mass the "Missa solemnis", and one opera, "Fidelio". The following is a complete chronology of the various line-ups of alternative rock music group Camper Van Beethoven.  Camper Van Beethoven (originally called "Camper Van Beethoven and the Border Patrol,") formed in 1983 in Redlands, California, before relocating to Santa Cruz, California in 1984 and San Francisco, California in 1988.  Prior to Camper Van Beethoven, band members David Lowery, Chris Molla, Victor Krummenacher and Bill McDonald played in several similarly conceived groups, with names like the Estonian Gauchos and Sitting Duck, that performed songs later found in the Camper Van Beethoven repertoire.  Other members of these groups included Johnny Hickman and Eric Laing. The Beethoven "Gesamtausgabe" is the first collected edition of the works of Ludwig van Beethoven.  Its full title is "Ludwig van Beethovens Werke: vollständige kritisch durchgesehene überall berechtige Ausgabe" (which roughly translated means "Ludwig van Beethoven's Works: complete, critical, thoroughly revised, authorized edition").  It was published between 1862 and 1865, with a supplementary volume appearing in 1888. Ludwig van Beethoven is a series of sculptures of Ludwig van Beethoven by German-American sculptor Henry Baerer.  Versions are displayed in Central Park in New York City, Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, and Prospect Park in Brooklyn.  The sculpture in Central Park was dedicated on July 22, 1884.  It includes two bronze statues, including a bust of Beethoven and an allegorical female figure on a polished Barre Granite pedestal. The Symphony No. 5 in C minor of Ludwig van Beethoven, Op.  67, was written between 1804–1808.  It is one of the best-known compositions in classical music, and one of the most frequently played symphonies.  First performed in Vienna's Theater an der Wien in 1808, the work achieved its prodigious reputation soon afterward.  E. T. A. Hoffmann described the symphony as "one of the most important works of the time".  The symphony consists of four movements.  The first movement is Allegro con brio; the second movement is Andante con moto; the third movement is a Scherzo Allegro; the fourth movement is Allegro. Ludwig van (full title: "Ludwig van: A report"; German: "Ludwig van: ein Bericht") is a black-and-white German film by Mauricio Kagel.  Filmed in 1969, it was first screened the following year.  The work was commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk for the bicentennial celebrations of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven in 1970.  The film examines the reception of the composer and his works and how he has become a consumer product of the culture industry.  The soundtrack is an arrangement of fragments of Beethoven's works, modified as if heard by the deaf composer himself; it is distinct from Kagel's 1970 composition "Ludwig van".  Prominent contemporary artists including Dieter Roth, Stefan Wewerka (), Robert Filliou, and Joseph Beuys were involved in the design.  According to "Gramophone", "at first it’s a laugh a minute ... then Kagel's film turns dark". Ludwig van Beethoven the Elder, also Ludovicus van Beethoven and Lodewijk van Beethoven (January 5, 1712 – December 24, 1773) was a professional singer and music director, best known as the grandfather of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven