Music Analysis: Ludwig Van Beethoven

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I am a guy that is big on music. Ever since I was a kid, I found music as a getaway tool and a stress reliever. Music is a very big part in my life and i can't go a day without listening to music. I am very picky when it comes to music choice. Not any genre can impress me, but I found out classical music very interesting, full of life, and a lot of history lies behind it. Just to keep it simple I gave Very Best of Beethoven on Amazon. It has 2 CDs and 10 tracks each. History behind Ludwig van Beethoven, he was a German writer and musician. A significant figure in the move between the Classical and Romantic times in Western workmanship music, he stays a standout amongst the most acclaimed and powerful of all authors. His best-known organizations …show more content…
This track makes me feel like an intelligent individual that just got his heart broken by the most beautiful girl in the land. It is also known as Moonlight Sonata. The writing of this symphony was finished 1801 and dedicated in 1082 to Julie ("Giulietta") Guicciardi. Track number four on this CD is String Quartet No. 9 (Beethoven) The early on Andante con moto segment of the main development is not straightforwardly identified with whatever remains of the development and serves a comparable capacity to the presentation of his Op. 74 quartet. From that point, the development's principal topical material is uncovered and created. The connection (or obvious scarcity in that department) between the moderate, dismal and conflicting presentation and the brilliant Allegro which takes after, is like what is found in Mozart's "Cacophony" Quartet, likewise in the key of C. Track number six is Symphony No. 6 (Beethoven) The Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, otherwise called the Pastoral Symphony (German Pastoral-Sinfonie), is an orchestra made by Ludwig van Beethoven, and finished in 1808. One of Beethoven's few works containing unequivocally automatic content, the ensemble was initially performed in the Theater a der Wien on 22 December 1808 in a four-hour

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