The piano is one of the most beautiful and most influential instruments invented. It also happens to be my personal favorite instrument. Several members of my family play the piano as well, my mom is a pianist and has recorded several albums playing the piano in accompany with her voice. Needless to say I have grown up listening to the piano and is crucial in my developing interest in music. All this personal history with the piano has made me interested to learn about the piano. In this paper I plan to discuss two things, the history and timeline of the piano and the remarkable people who influenced the piano we have today.
Timeline
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Everyone knows that name but his full name is Ludwig Van Beethoven, he was born in Bonn Germany on December 16, 1770. He died at the age of fifty-six after struggling with an immensely difficult personal life. Beethoven was a pianist and composer, widely considered the greatest of all time, a crucial transitional pianist connecting the classical and romantic ages to western music. His innovative compositions, combining vocals and instruments, widened the sphere sonatas, symphonies, concertos and quartets. Like another pianist I researched Beethoven also struggled with a disability. Beethoven began to lose his hearing, yet the remarkable thing is that it did not hamper his talents, some of his most important works were composed during the last ten years of his life, when he was quite unable to hear. The piano sonatas before Beethoven all followed the same structural blueprint, a lively, brisk opening movement balanced by a middle slow movement, with a cathartic finale pulling the loose ends together. But Beethoven broke the mold, providing an eerie minor-toned introduction, followed by a narrative to get lost in and ending with a brutally intense last movement. He was unleashing a musical revolution. He did not just break the musical model of his time he was unleashing a musical revolution. Like the invention of the electric guitar producing rock ’n’ roll, Beethoven’s imagination was provoked by the piano’s technology enhancements in the early 1800’s. This modern piano, with extra notes added to the bass and treble, and the new sustaining pedal, changed Beethoven's options for creating music. I think what Beethoven is to music, is what the modern piano was to Beethoven. That modern piano inspired him and he its
Timeline
The next area of my essay is about the incredible people that influenced and were influenced by the piano. …show more content…
Everyone knows that name but his full name is Ludwig Van Beethoven, he was born in Bonn Germany on December 16, 1770. He died at the age of fifty-six after struggling with an immensely difficult personal life. Beethoven was a pianist and composer, widely considered the greatest of all time, a crucial transitional pianist connecting the classical and romantic ages to western music. His innovative compositions, combining vocals and instruments, widened the sphere sonatas, symphonies, concertos and quartets. Like another pianist I researched Beethoven also struggled with a disability. Beethoven began to lose his hearing, yet the remarkable thing is that it did not hamper his talents, some of his most important works were composed during the last ten years of his life, when he was quite unable to hear. The piano sonatas before Beethoven all followed the same structural blueprint, a lively, brisk opening movement balanced by a middle slow movement, with a cathartic finale pulling the loose ends together. But Beethoven broke the mold, providing an eerie minor-toned introduction, followed by a narrative to get lost in and ending with a brutally intense last movement. He was unleashing a musical revolution. He did not just break the musical model of his time he was unleashing a musical revolution. Like the invention of the electric guitar producing rock ’n’ roll, Beethoven’s imagination was provoked by the piano’s technology enhancements in the early 1800’s. This modern piano, with extra notes added to the bass and treble, and the new sustaining pedal, changed Beethoven's options for creating music. I think what Beethoven is to music, is what the modern piano was to Beethoven. That modern piano inspired him and he its