The Life Beathoven
I sit here listening to Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, and wonder who this man was. I went to Ask.com, and asked whom he was, and they had a brief overview of the man. "Beethoven, Ludwig van The composer of some of the most influential pieces of music ever written, Ludwig van Beethoven created a bridge between the 18th-century classical period and the new beginnings of Romanticism, "...and did much to enlarge the possibilities of music and widen the horizons of later generations of composers."(unknown author) His greatest breakthroughs in composition came in his instrumental work, including his symphonies." They think he was born Dec. 16 1770 in Bonn, Germany, and baptised on Dec. 17, 1770, the eldest son of a singer in the Kapelle of the Archbishop- Elector of Cologne, and grandson of the Archbishop's Kapellmeister, His father and grandfather worked as court musicians in Bonn. Ludwig's father, a singer, gave him his early musical training. I searched the ISU encyclopedia's on his music, and realized that he had a predecessor, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, for whom writing music seemed to come easily, Beethoven always struggled to perfect his work. Beethoven had only meager academic schooling, he studied piano, violin, and French ho
3, known as the "Eroica," and the 'Fourth Piano Concerto' are a couple of examples of this period. Most critics divide Beethoven's work into three general periods, omitting the earliest years of his apprenticeship in Bonn. The influence of such musicians as Mozart and Haydn is evident in Beethoven's early chamber music, as well as in his first two piano concerti and his first symphony. Afterward, in order to have conversations with his friends, Beethoven had them write down their questions and replied orally. Even wider ranges of harmony and counterpoint characterize the final period, from 1814 to the end of his life. In Vienna young Beethoven soon had a long list of aristocratic patrons who loved music and were eager to help him. Though he had many friends, he seemed to be a lonely man. Even before he left Bonn, he had developed a reputation for fine improvisatory performances. He continued to appear in public but spent more and more of his time working on his compositions. The second period, from 1801 to 1814, includes much of Beethoven's improvisatory work.
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