Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770. He is one of the best and significant composers of western music. He overlooked the music transition from the Classical style which is full of poise, to the Romantic style which is emotion.
Beethoven was a composer who wrote for very wealthy patrons, he also earned lots of money from lots of public concerts. He wrote nine symphonies, 32 piano sonatas, one opera, five piano concertos, and lots of chamber works including some amazing string quartets. Beethoven was a difficult and very unsociable, he was isolated because of deafness which developed in his twenties and he never got married.
Beethoven enjoyed being a great success lifetime. It has been said that on the night of the premiere of his Ninth, he …show more content…
He was brought up in a very musical family. By the time he was twenty his talent was recognized by the public and in 1792 he was told he was allowed to study with a guy called Joseph Haydn in Vienna. In Vienna the young Beethoven was a success by managing to make a very good living from concert. But by 1798 he had started to begin to notice that his hearing started to become impaired. Beethoven could still compose his music by imagining every note and chord by his mind ear but sadly performing and socialising became out of the question. As his became more and more deaf he performed lesser than usual and in 1814 was his last public …show more content…
Ries taught Beethoven music as a violin teacher in Bonn when Beethoven was younger. Christian Gottlob Neefe was born in 1748 and died in 1798, this composer was one of Beethoven's very first teachers. It is hard to tell and know exactly when Neefe taught Beethoven but he arrived in Bonn in 1779. Neefe in 1783, wrote of Beethoven in a magazine called "Magazine of music" he wrote "If he continues like this he will, without doubt, become the next Mozart". Franz Joseph Haydn was born in 1732 and died in 1809, he was a famous composer who had taught Beethoven from 1792 to 1794, which was the time that Haydn returned to London. Haydn taught Beethoven counterpoint amongst anything else and other things. The relationship between Beethoven and Haydn was variable, but Beethoven remained very attatched to what he called him, "Papa Haydn". Johann Georg Albrechtsberger was born in 1736 and died in 1809, he was Beethoven's music teacher for about a year and a half from 1794 to 1795. Albrechtsberger was known for his mastery of counterpoint. Each lesson that Beethoven had, it was after Haydn’s lessons, sometimes Beethoven had two lessons from both of the masters at the same time. Antonio Salieri whom was born in 1750 and died in 1825, Beethoven had studied with Salieri from 1800 to 1802. Salieri had taught him opera singing. There was a very
Beethoven was a composer who wrote for very wealthy patrons, he also earned lots of money from lots of public concerts. He wrote nine symphonies, 32 piano sonatas, one opera, five piano concertos, and lots of chamber works including some amazing string quartets. Beethoven was a difficult and very unsociable, he was isolated because of deafness which developed in his twenties and he never got married.
Beethoven enjoyed being a great success lifetime. It has been said that on the night of the premiere of his Ninth, he …show more content…
He was brought up in a very musical family. By the time he was twenty his talent was recognized by the public and in 1792 he was told he was allowed to study with a guy called Joseph Haydn in Vienna. In Vienna the young Beethoven was a success by managing to make a very good living from concert. But by 1798 he had started to begin to notice that his hearing started to become impaired. Beethoven could still compose his music by imagining every note and chord by his mind ear but sadly performing and socialising became out of the question. As his became more and more deaf he performed lesser than usual and in 1814 was his last public …show more content…
Ries taught Beethoven music as a violin teacher in Bonn when Beethoven was younger. Christian Gottlob Neefe was born in 1748 and died in 1798, this composer was one of Beethoven's very first teachers. It is hard to tell and know exactly when Neefe taught Beethoven but he arrived in Bonn in 1779. Neefe in 1783, wrote of Beethoven in a magazine called "Magazine of music" he wrote "If he continues like this he will, without doubt, become the next Mozart". Franz Joseph Haydn was born in 1732 and died in 1809, he was a famous composer who had taught Beethoven from 1792 to 1794, which was the time that Haydn returned to London. Haydn taught Beethoven counterpoint amongst anything else and other things. The relationship between Beethoven and Haydn was variable, but Beethoven remained very attatched to what he called him, "Papa Haydn". Johann Georg Albrechtsberger was born in 1736 and died in 1809, he was Beethoven's music teacher for about a year and a half from 1794 to 1795. Albrechtsberger was known for his mastery of counterpoint. Each lesson that Beethoven had, it was after Haydn’s lessons, sometimes Beethoven had two lessons from both of the masters at the same time. Antonio Salieri whom was born in 1750 and died in 1825, Beethoven had studied with Salieri from 1800 to 1802. Salieri had taught him opera singing. There was a very