Complex sentence: Beethoven often joked about his corpulence, calling him'My Lord Falstaff', and composed a short, comic choral piece dedicated to him, "Praise to the Fat One" ("Lob auf den Dicken").
Split into simpler sentences: Beethoven often joked about his corpulence, calling him'My Lord Falstaff'. Beethoven composed a short, comic choral piece dedicated to him, "Praise to the Fat One" ("Lob auf den Dicken").