Why Did Beethoven's Study With Joseph Haydn And Mozart

Van taught Beethoven through brutal beatings, if he didn't get it right his father would hit him until it was to his pleasing. Despite the fact that Johann Van's teaching methods were wrong, Beethoven became a prodigiously talented child from his earliest days which allowed him to reach farther than any composer's before or since. With his reputation already beginnning to flurish, Beethoven moved to Vienna in 1792 where he began to study with Joseph Haydn (Budden sec. 1). He started to become popular as a pianist, and as a composer on the side. Around the time that Beethoven was studying with Haydn and Mozart, he began to explore a new direction with his music and gradually expanding the scope and ambition of his work. Some of the main important …show more content…
2). From around 1812 to 1816 was Beethoven's period of low productivity where people believed he was suffering from depression because of his troubled life and the fact that he was starting to become deaf. He also began to realize that he was never going to get married because the women he was attracted to were either married of aristocratic women (Neal sec. 7). All of these things haunted him and he began to contemplate suicide. The last period of Beethoven's life began around 1816 and lasted until he stopped composing in 1826. His late works are some of his most important and admired pieces because they contained intellectual depth and intensity on his personal life. Some of these pieces include the Ninth Symphony ("Choral"), the "Missa Solemnis", and his last six quartets and last five piano sonatas (Rodman sec. 3). Beethoven reflected all of the dark personal problems going on in his life into his music, which often depicted struggle followed by triumph. This description is