Beethoven showed his talent in music and his father wanted to earn money from his talent. Beethoven could not go to school and he had to practise playing piano everyday for several hours. The show that when Beethoven was 8 years old made him famous. People regarded him as the second Mozart. He bagun to make songs since he was 11 years old. After that,he had made a lot of famous songs.
He became deef when he was 26 years old. He lost all hope of life but he was brave because music encouraged him to be strong. He could not hear but it did not kill his passion for music. He still worked hard in music and make a lot of famous and wonderful music.
Look at Idomeneo. Not only is it a marvel, but as Mozart was still quite young and brash when he wrote it, it was a completely new thing. What marvelous dissonance! What harmony! When Haydn or Mozart wrote on commission, it was the same as their other works.
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October 8th, 5 Comments. MRT Jun 22, at pm - Reply. Manny Jun 23, at am - Reply. Terence H Maness Jun 23, at pm - Reply. The man was an iconoclast. Stephen M. Klugewicz Jul 13, at am - Reply. Leave A Comment Cancel reply Comment. A nine-year-old boy is fast asleep when his drunken father comes barging into his room.
The boy is beaten awake and dragged downstairs to a piano where he is forced to play for his father and drunken friends for hours. A wrong note results in slaps, punches and ridicule. It happens regularly, and even when his father is sober the boy is mocked, beaten and forced to practise until he can barely see straight.
Amid this madness, aged 11, rather than starve, he starts to earn a living as an organist. The beatings get so bad that twice, before the age of 13, he almost dies. The adult that emerged from that hell was angry, sullen and suspicious. He was scarred physically and mentally, often suicidal, clumsy, badly co-ordinated, obtuse, prone to obsessive-compulsive behaviours and lacking both personal hygiene and social graces.
He went on singlehandedly to change the musical world for ever. It has been said that he alone dragged music out of the Classical age and into the Romantic. I believe passionately that Beethoven both defined and deserves his own musical era.
Ascribing specific dates and composers to different musical movements or eras works for everyone except Beethoven. And there is Beethoven, standing alone above them all. Beethoven was never scared of expressing his dislike of authority or social rank. Sometimes he would stop performing if the audience was not giving him their full attention.
Archduke Rudolph even decreed that the usual court etiquette did not apply to the great man. Despite his legendary irascibility, Beethoven had a devoted circle of friends who even competed with each other to help him cope with life.
Here's one of his closest confidantes and assistant, Ferdinand Ries. The Eroica Symphony was originally dedicated to Napoleon because Beethoven saw Bonaparte as the embodiment of French Revolutionary ideals.
But the composer ripped up the title page when he heard that Napoleon had proclaimed himself Emperor of France.
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