Autumn Markley
Take Home Test Part 1
Beethoven
Due 11/19/14
Ludwig Van Beethoven lived a very complex life. When Beethoven was a young boy he suffered the abuse of his alcoholic father. He later lost who he thought to be “the only one who ever loved him”, along with his hearing which due to his passion for music made him feel less important. Beethoven went through struggle after struggle making a name for himself. But despite all of the heartache and despair in his life his music overcame it all. Beethoven used his musical abilities to overcome his sadness and unknowingly helping others overcome theirs as well.
Composer and pianist Ludwig Van Beethoven, widely considered as the greatest composer of all time was born around
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Young Beethoven was repeatedly hit by his father and locked in the cellar to practice his music. His father made him practice for hours causing sleep deprivation. Being so young the father’s abuse caused long term problems in Beethoven 's life. He studied the violin and clavier with his father while also taking lessons from organists around town on the side. Beethoven was a extremely talented musician which was made apparent even when he was a young child. Whether this was due to natural talent or his fathers persistent torment we will never know. However, Beethoven showed his skills in creativity and patience while he was very young, things that his father could not of really taught him.
The death of Beethoven’s mother caused him to fall into a deep depression. It was hard for him to lose who he considered to be "the only one who ever loved him". Beethoven 's mother helped lessen the abuse inflicted by his drunken father when Beethoven was a child, and for that Beethoven was very thankful. When Beethoven was older his talent was discovered and he left his home to go to Vienna and study with Haydn and ended up spending the rest of his life there. Beethoven secretly took lessons with other teachers and never told Haydn. One of Beethoven’s greatest abilities was how he could improvise parts of his music. The people of Vienna were amazed with his work. Unfortunately Beethoven began to get his first symptoms of
No other composer or musical artist has made as big of an impact on music as Ludwig Van Beethoven. He influenced many other composers, and made some of the most beautiful pieces that are still played today. It is truly amazing that he was able to master his craft and become questionably the greatest composer that has ever lived, despite having a condition that would seem to make composing music impossible.
When we talk about Beethoven people often recall him as one that was great. When you think of Beethoven you can consider him a transitional composer and that is mainly because he is the crucial transitional figure linking the Classical and Romantic eras of musical history. Beethoven's innovation was the ability to briskly establish imperishability in bringing together different keys and unexpected notes to join them. Beethoven's music was correspondent to the agreement of the music in literature. Most of his music focused on life drama of one or more individuals through hard life circumstances. Beethoven’s role as a transitional composer between the classical and romantic periods took
Beethoven is perhaps the most famous musician of all time. His influence on later composers was extremely huge, to the extent where many composers were intimidated by his music. Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770 into a family of musicians. His father and grandfather were both musicians at the court of Elector in the German town of Bonn. His grandfather was very respected, but his dad not so much given that he was an alcoholic. At a young age, Beethoven was put in charge of his family’s finances and started a job at the court. He composed music and helped look after the instrumentation. Around the same time, he began to write music. In 1790, an important visitor passed through Bonn: this was Franz Joseph Haydn. He was on his way to London for a visit when he stopped to meet Beethoven and agreed to take him on as a student when he came back from London to Vienna. In 1792, Beethoven moved to Vienna to study with Hayden. Apparently, it did not go as planned. Hayden was old fashion and a little overbearing, while Beethoven was rebellious and headstrong. Beethoven found support among the rich arts who lived in Vienna. Prince Lichnowsky gave him board and lodging at his place for in return, Beethoven would compose music and preform at evening parties.
1819 is the year in which his hearing was thoroughly depleted. He could no longer play the piano virtuously and had to communicate by text. As a result, he spent a majority of his time composing. Beethoven would sketch out his compositions in a book. These books have been maintained and it is evident that he would work on several pieces at once. During this time, his compositions ranged from simple melodies to more elaborate and edited works. In 1804 Beethoven completed his Third Symphony. This piece was originally a tribute to Napoleon Bonaparte, but when Beethoven found that Napoleon was proclaimed an emperor he deleted the dedication. At this point in his life, Beethoven seriously considered marriage. His first love was for a woman named Giulietta Guicciardi. When this relationship eventually broke, he sought the hand of Giulietta’s cousin, Josephine. The bond between them broke and the engagement was ended. Beethoven’s final attempt with a woman was with his doctor’s daughter, Therese Malfatti. As is expected, this relationship also failed and Beethoven reached the final part of his life as a bachelor. The rate and quality of his compositions slowed and he became more and more isolated. Another depressing and negative event in Beethoven’s life took place in 1815. His brother died. Caspar Anton Carl left behind a son and a widow and instructed
Ludwig van Beethoven’s father, Johann van Beethoven was a musician, teacher, and a singer. His father started giving him piano lesson’s at the age of 4 or 5. Beethoven’s father was all about exploiting his young son’s talents; he even lied about
Ever since his father began teaching him as a child to play the violin and clavier, any keyboard instrument such as the harpsichord, Ludwig van Beethoven has been amongst the most renowned and influential composers of music. Despite the harsh punishments and mistreatment Beethoven suffered through while practicing with his father, he still managed to become a “prodigy” at a rather young age, having his first public recital at around seven years old. After his first recital role music played in his continued to grow, and soon after dropping out of school to pursue music “full time” he published his first composition.
Only a few composers in the history of time have ever successfully left their mark throughout our musical world we live in today. It’s been over two hundred years since the birth of Beethoven and his music still speaks to us today as he originally expressed and composed it. Ludwig Van Beethoven was born in the city of Bonn Germany on December 16th 1770 and has since been one of the most influential composers known to man. A common theme of early age learning and mastering seems to emerge in Beethoven’s life because while living in a musical family as a child, his father taught him how to play the piano, violin and in addition how to compose musical pieces since he was four years of age. A few short years later, he gave his first public piano performance at the age of seven. While Beethoven certainly gained a lot of knowledge from his peers, he also supported his family by giving music lessons and also by playing in the court orchestra. In the year 1792, Beethoven worked under an Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn and by the year 1800, his compositions established him as a strong Mozart successor.
We see the events in his life that made him into the person he became. Negatives in the book were that Morris gives too much detail at times regarding the specifics of Beethoven’s works. This may be due to the fact that Morris himself has a background in music. While Morris and musicians may understand the musical vocabulary used in the book, from a reader’s perspective with limited musical knowledge, this could be difficult to read. Some may feel that Morris could have conveyed his message without the rigorous descriptions that at times were
After many personal crises in his life, Beethoven's music reflects his mood. His masterpiece represented struggle followed by triumph. Later, his influence has been worked by the ideals of the Enlightenment, which led him to dedicate the symphony "Erotica" Napoleon. Symphony "Ode to Joy" was estimated at about the brotherhood of humanity. His works are admired for their intellectual depth, intense expression, and experimental forms. It is considered one of the greatest minds of humanity. His work was ambitious head of the transition between eras of classical and romantic music led Beethoven's life of a child to an adult. A overcame alcoholic father; the death of his mother did not, and has provided a way to support his family. He carried through personal crises, including the loss of his hearing and earned him critical acclaim in social circles. His
People with even the most minimal musical knowledge recognize the name Beethoven as an august and classical composer. Most are also aware that he became deaf later in life and was known to have a sporadic temper. Beyond these basic assumptions, this research looks to unearth not only the psychological aspects of Beethoven’s personal life, but also how those aspects and other major events in his life affect his composition.
Every great figure in history can name at least one prominent figure in their life that inspired them to excel and become masters of their craft. Ludwig van Beethoven was born with musical talent in his blood. His grandfather, of the same name, was a singer that eventually became a composer in the Archbishop’s court, as well as, his father becoming a singer in the same court. As soon as Beethoven showed interest in music, his father made sure to become his music teacher to hone his talents. He became the assistant of the head organist of the Archbishop’s court, and when the Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph II, died Beethoven was asked to compose a piece for his funeral. Eventually, he was able to go to Vienna to study under multiple musical talents such as: Haydn, Salieri, and Albrechtsberger. Around the time that Beethoven was becoming famous, Napoleon Bonaparte came to power. Beethoven dedicated one of his “most original works to date” to him, called Symphony No. 3 or Eroica Symphony. Throughout, Beethoven’s career, he was influenced heavily by his family, the church, and other classical musicians. As he grew older, he started to become deaf and depressed. He was able to overcome his depression by
Beethoven had two younger brothers, Caspar and Johann, who both survived into adulthood. His mother and father didn’t have anything to do with music. His grandfather however, was Bonn's most affluent musician. Beethoven’s father started teaching him music with extreme austerity. This brutality affected Beethoven for the rest of his life. Almost every day Beethoven was locked up in the cellar and deprived of sleep to get extra hours of practice in. His father taught him the clavier and the violin. He also
The depression however, did not last and Beethoven continued carrying on as a young musician. In 1790, Beethoven, just 19 years old, received a remarkable honor of composing a musical memorial for the death of the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II. With no reasons known, this piece was never played. “However, more than a century later, Johannes Brahms discovered that Beethoven had in fact composed a ‘beautiful and noble’ piece of music entitled ‘Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II.’ It is now considered his earliest masterpiece” (“Biography”). Just under two decades old, this man was pronouncing himself in the world. As Mozart said before, he was giving the world amazing music to talk about.
When I was 7 years old, my parents signed me up for music school. I did not want to go to music school, but they wanted me just to try. In first class we were just listening classical music and it really sounded boring. But when Beethoven’s fifth symphony came on, I fell in love with classical music and I wanted to study it even more. My sister was also in musical school and she played piano and when I came back from school, I was begging her to play me some of Beethoven’s pieces. I wanted to study everything about him and also learn how to play some of his pieces. So writing this paper is going to be fun, and I am going to write it with pleasure.
Ludwig Van Beethoven was one of the greatest musical composers of his time. Starting very young in his studies of music, he held many important positions they would develop him into the composer he became. Born in Bonn, Germany to a singer, he held his first position at the church. He later moved to Vienna where his composed several pieces, and even an opera. He created a new style of music, cyclic form.