The World of Music Begins Imagine spending the majority of a lifetime dedicated to music and then going deaf. This would create quite the obstacle, but Ludwig van Beethoven made it through it. His talent and love for music helped him overcome the problems. Not only the bad things, but one could also say he overcame the world of music. There were many things Beethoven did in his career that influenced the music of today. Overall, Ludwig van Beethoven overcame the music world by becoming a musical prodigy, influencing much of the classical music of his time, and continuing to compose his great works despite the many obstacles. Beethoven began his career in music at a very young age. He had already begun to learn the violin and clavier at the age of four with the help of his father (Suchet 12). A lot of the reason behind his early music lessons was due to his father, Johann Beethoven, wanting young Ludwig to live up to the talent of Mozart (Encyclopedia of World Biography). To do this, Johann arranged a concert to show off his son’s talent. At the time, Ludwig was slightly over seven years old. However, his father put an advertisement in the newspaper saying he was only six. Nobody knows the actual reason for doing so, but it’s assumed that it was to make Ludwig seem younger to make it look as though his abilities were even more impressive. Although, some other people conclude that Johann really didn’t know Ludwig’s age, considering how easily lost family records were (Suchet 13). The young Mozart held a concert around this time as well, and, unfortunately, Beethoven’s performance still was not nearly as wonderful Turpen 2 as Mozart’s (Reader’s Digest 441). This did not mean he was not a prodigy himself, though. He... ... middle of paper ... ...se he is one of the greatest and most well-known composers of all time. The fact that he grew deaf early in life only made his talent more impressive, for not many could do that difficult task. Turpen 5 Works Cited “Beethoven Music Shaped by Gradual Deafness, Say Experts.” BBC News. 21 Dec. 2011. Web. 28 Mar 2014. “Ludwig van Beethoven.” Encyclopedia of World Biography. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Biography in Context. Web. 20 Mar. 2014. “Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827).” Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). The British Library Board, n.d. Web. 31 Mar 2014. Reader’s Digest. Great Biographies: Cicero, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, Ludwig van Beethoven, Lowell Thomas. New York: Reader’s Digest Association, 1987. Print. Suchet, John. Beethoven: The Man Revealed. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012. Print.
Mozart never received a formal education. His father was his teacher and taught him geography,
Luke 6:45 states, “For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” This is very true of Ludwig van Beethoven because what he believed affected his music. Beethoven was an extremely famous composer who helped transition the Classical era into the Romantic era. Composing from age 12 until his death in 1827, his music reflected his character. Although he is often considered a musical genius, which he is, his lack of God, and his lack of a spiritual life centered in Christ, affected his music, his view of life, and how he was remembered.
Beethoven acquired his first post in music when he was just eleven years old. At this age he work as the assistant to the organist in a local court. Later on at the age of thirteen he played keyboard during opera rehearsals. His first real performance came when he was eighteen; Beethoven played the viola in a local theatre orchestra. He played with this orchestra until the age of twenty-two.
The fact that his contemporaries gave him many awards proves that he was one of the greatest composers of his time. Still, the strongest point in proving his greatness is that fact that he was able to adapt to the changes around him. By his own admission, "...an entirely new public for music had grown up around the radio and phonograph. It made no sense to ignore them and to continue writing as if they did not exist. I felt that it was worth the effort to see if I couldn't say what I had to say in the simplest possible terms." His success in changing to the times speaks volumes about his ingenuity. Many people have an extremely difficult time dealing with
Ludwig van Beethoven is who everyone thinks of first when someone asks if you know any composer from classical music. Beethoven changed the sound of music in the early 1800’s from bland and meaningless, to exciting and heartfelt. You felt Beethoven’s pain through his music. Was Beethoven’s deafness to blame for his spark of genius that changed the course of classicism, to romanticism? Was it not for his lonesome solitude, and lack of hearing that drove him to create the masterpieces that are still resonating through current times?
Beethoven’s early life was one out of a sad story book. For being one of the most well-known musicians one would think that sometime during Beethovens childhood he was influenced and inspired to play music; This was not the case. His father was indeed a musician but he was more interested in drinking than he was playing music. When his father saw the smallest sliver of music interest in Beethoven he immediately put him into vigorous musical training in hopes he would be the next Mozart; his training included organ, viola, and piano. This tainted how young Beethoven saw music and the memories that music brought. Nevertheless Beethoven continued to do what he knew and by thirteen he was composing his own music and assisting his teacher, Christian Neefe. Connections began to form during this time with different aristocrats and families who stuck with him and became lifelong friends. At 17 Beethoven, with the help of his friends, traveled to Vienna, the music capitol of the world, to further his knowledge and connection...
Ludwig Van Beethoven was a famous composer and pianist between the Classical and Romantic eras of history. Beethoven started performing at the age of seven years old and he composed his first piece at the age of twelve and was considered to be a child prodigy by many; however, much of his life was accomplished through struggles that eventually become part of his legacy. Throughout his life he had many problems that he would have to overcome but this did not stop his love for music and all the accomplishments that he would have.
On March 26, 1827, Beethoven passed away. His autopsy revealed that his cause of death was due to post-hepatitic cirrhosis of the liver. His deafness was believed to be caused by contracting typhus in the summer of 1796. In his will that he had wrote a couple days before he passed, he left his estate to his nephew Karl. Ludwig Van Beethoven is considered to be one of the greatest composers of all time. The fact that he was composing such beautiful music pieces while was deaf made him a genius.
Isaac Newton faced many hardships in his lifetime, yet managed to be internationally famous for his genius mathematical and physical discoveries, and remarkable inventions. Newton was extraordinary in the sense that he was able to endure complications in life and still be an enormous success. The majority of individuals would have cracked under the predicaments Newton faced. Newton overcame neglect by suppressing his emotions, defeating limitations of his time, and becoming one of the most noteworthy mathematicians and physicists in history.
Ludwig van Beethoven, a German composer, generally considered one of the greatest composers in the Western tradition. Born in Bonn, Beethoven was reared in to the capricious discipline of his father, a singer in the court chapel. In1789, because of his father's alcoholism, the young Beethoven became a court musician in order to support his family. His early compositions under the tutelage of German composer Christian Gottlob Neefe, particularly the funeral on the death of Holy Roman Emperor Joseph || in1790, signaled an important talent, and it was planned that Beethoven study in Vienna, Australia, with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Although Mozart's death in 1791 prevented this, Beethoven went to Vienna in 1792, and he became a pupil of an Australian composer named Joseph Haydn.
At the age of five years his father began instruct him violin playing, and at eight the musical director, Pfeifer, undertook his training on the piano while the court organist Van den Eden and his successor Christian Gottlab Neefe instructed him in organ playing harmony and composition. As a pianist he made such rapid progress that in a few years he was able to interpret Bach's well-tempered Clavichord and his improvise in a masterly fashion. At thirteen years of age he gave forth his first compositions a set six sonatas. These and some other productions of his early youth later repudiated and destroyed. When he was fifteen Elector Maximilian whose assistant court organist he had in the meantime become unable young Beethoven to visit Vienna.
...cal and romantic eras. He is one of the most well-known composers of all time. By the last decade of his life, Beethoven was almost completely deaf. He gave up conducing and peforming for audiences, and instead took to composing.
But, to tell the truth, I want to give only main important information related to the prominent composer, Ludwig van Beethoven. Ludwig van Beethoven was really a famous and influential German composer and was born in 1770 in Bonn, Germany. Actually, first of all, he was able to learn and display his musical talents from his father whose name was Johann van Beethoven and from his most significant teacher and composer whose name was Christian Gottlob Neefe at the young ages. After that, when Ludwig van Beethoven was at the young ages, he moved and began to study the music and composition with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn, then was able to establish his essential and indispensable career in Vienna, Austria and finally was able to acquire and achieve a reputation as magnanimous pianist and famous teacher. Then, he began to live in Vienna, Austria until the end of his
In 1800, Beethoven had wrote his first ever symphony. He was just 30 years old and already showing symptoms of hearing lost. This just shows how dedicated and genius Beethoven was. Nobody at the time was doing anything remotely close to what he was writing. Not to mention, he was going deaf. It really shows how involved and dedicated he was to music and how he passion for natural and what he heard in the world, transferred into his pieces.
Ludwig van Beethoven was an extraordinary music composer, especially considering he was deaf most of his life and career. He was born in Germany on December 16, 1770. Many obstacles were hurled at him, but he triumphed over them, and even deafness didn’t stop him from composing some of the worlds greatest, and most recognized music compositions (Rosenwald 167). His life, music, and his musical styles and techniques all contribute to his life story.