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Beethoven moved to Vienna permanently when Haydn who agreed to instruct him Vienna. It was around this time that Beethoven began the first of his three major periods of his work.

The first period is known as his Viennese (or High) Classical period, it

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His composing skills were not affected by his growing deafness, but his ability to teach and perform was inhibited. Some say that Beethoven was composing music for a different age (Solomon, 1998).

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. Beethoven’s second period of work is known as his Heroic period and it lasted from about 1801 to 1814. His Moonlight Sonata in C# minor (1801) is known as the first of Heroic Beethoven. By about 1800 his experimentation with additions to the standard forms made it apparent that he had mastered and reached the limits of Viennese Classical style (Solomon, 1998)

So begins the second period of Beethoven’s work. He composed sonatas for the cello that in combination with the piano opened the era of the Classical-Romantic cello sonata. Beethoven gave his last performance in 1814, on the piano, but continued to be a famed and respected composer until after his death. Because of Beethoven’s total loss of hearing this period of music is sometimes also known as his “Silent period” (Solomon, 1998). Beethoven created longer and more complicated forms of music. Haydn’s instruction as well as Mozart’s influenced this first period heavily. Beethoven was totally deaf no later than 1819 and in order to have conversations with his friends, Beethoven had them write down their questions and replied orally. ” The bicentennial of his birth and the sesquicentennial of his death were celebrated with new performances and recordings of all of the master’s old works. The main theme of the opera revolves around fidelity, which reflects his personal desire to marry (Beethoven never married).

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