Music: Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

From the 1805 onward, Beethoven’s productivity increased dramatically, having reached his musical maturity. He had become regarded as one of the most important in a generation of young composers, following Hayden and Mozart. Beethoven

Some of the most well known composers came to be in the in the classical music period. Ludwig van Beethoven was one of the composers, along with other greats of the time like Haydn and Mozart, which helped to create a new type of music. This new music had full rich sounds created by the new construction of the symphony orchestra.

Ludwig van Beethoven is a revered figure in the history of classical music in today’s world. Born in Bonn, Germany, he underwent strict guidance from his father who aspired to mold him into the next generation “Mozart.” Sailing through the tides of social, political and cultural revolution, Beethoven became a renowned composer and rose in ranks in the history of classical music. Although succumbed to deafness in his later years, Beethoven had left behind a phenomenon legacy which took the stage of classical music. Moving on from the early 18th century, his works were venerated by many composers and musicians, and till date, his name still tops the lists in the field of classical composition. Not only expanding on his own classical style, Beethoven also highly influenced subsequent generations of classical music, such as the juxtaposition of chords and the expansion of orchestra size. Above all achievements, Beethoven had established such a classical music elitism that he represents a firm benchmark for classical music. Composers and musicians idolized Beethoven, so much that their humble veneration made him seemed unsurpassable. That veneration had also transformed Beethoven into a “singularity” that is studied extensively and his works played repeatedly, creating a stationary progression. Consequently, this veneration might stifle the future generation by excluding them of their individuality. However, Beethoven might be at the “zenith” but his works only paved one of

The early piano sonatas of Beethoven deserve special mention. Although his first published examples of concertos and trios and the first two symphonies are beneath the masterpieces of Mozart and Haydn, the piano sonatas bear an unmistakably Beethovian stamp: grandiose in scope and length, and innovative in their range of expression. The sonatas were able to move expression from terrible rage to peals of laughter to deep depression so suddenly. Capturing this unpredictable style in his music, a new freedom of expression which broke the bounds of Classical ideals, was to position Beethoven as a disturbed man in the minds of some of his contemporaries. Furthermore, he was to be seen as the father of Romanticism and the single most important innovator of music in the minds of those after him. (Bookspan 27).

Beethoven’s compositions made way for the Romantic Period of Classical Music to occur by breaking down the social restrictions against composers and other musicians at the time. By doing so, Beethoven cleared the way for the wide variety of music genres we hear today.

Many musicians have one notable work that soars above the rest, and Beethoven falls into this category as well. In the years 1822-1824, Beethoven composed his most well known piece, the Ninth Symphony. The Ninth Symphony was performed for the very first time on May 7, 1824, and was dedicated to the King of Prussia. The Ninth Symphony has four separate movements, but the most popular movement is the 4th movement. The infamous and perhaps most

The instrumental music of the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) forms a peak in the development of tonal music and is one of the crucial evolutionary developments in the history of music as a whole.

Beethoven who was once only known for his extreme talent of playing the piano, had become a brilliant composer. In the year of 1800, at Vienna’s Royal Imperial Theater, Beethoven revealed Symphony no. 1 to the continent of Europe, making him one of the most renowned composers in Europe. In the year of 1801 he composed more music, such as his “Six String Quartet”, revered as the hardest Viennese musical compositions of his time, The Creatures of Prometheus, and he eventually composed Symphony no. 3, in honor of the new Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in the year of 1804. Beethoven formed this beautiful work of art in spite of the decline of his hearing, which began in the year of

The early spring of 1781, Beethoven had mad a decision to further his musical career and moved to Vienna for a short amount of time. During his time there his music started to grow more, especially in the production of it. Within 1781 to January of 1784 he had written at least seven pieces of music, three of them being sonatas.

At the age of four, in 1774 in Bunn, Germany, Beethoven began to play music, but desired to be free from the harsh vigilant eyes of his father. At the age of twenty-two, Beethoven moved to Vienna, which resulted in musical growth and freedom. In Vienna, he met Mozart as well as Haydn. Beethoven actually was taught and influenced by Haydn. To truly experience freedom in his music, Beethoven had to experience tragedies. When Beethoven’s mother died and when he realized, at thirty-one, that he was losing his hearing, Beethoven began to express the freedom of emotion in his music. Unlike Mozart, Beethoven had economic stability, but he did not have the ability to write a song instantly. However, Beethoven composed nine symphonies, the fifth being the most famous. It was in his third symphony, Eroica, when Beethoven found his own style. Beethoven truly was the father of the Romantic style, of music, due to the emotion in his

Ludwig van Beethoven, born in Bonn Germany, December 17, 1770, was a composer of some of the most influential pieces of music ever written. Beethoven is one of the most widely recognized and admired composers in the history of western music (And an important bridge between the Classical and Baroque era styles.) Beethoven was a very prolific composer, producing many symphonies, concertos, piano sonatas, violin sonatas, an opera, masses and several overtures. Beethoven is best known for nine symphonies, which have been called the cornerstones of Western civilization. (The most famous being the fifth and ninth Symphony because of their grandeur.)

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This symphony is in E-flat major opus number 55. The symphony is also known as Sinfonia Eroica in Italian or Heroic Symphony. The symphony is one of Beethoven’s lauded works. Eroica was composed between 1803 to 1804 and it marked

During the late 18th century, Ludwig van Beethoven, pianist and composer, began to his glorious rise to fame in the world of music. After moving to Vienna and becoming a pupil of the celebrated Joseph Haydn, Beethoven commenced his period of compositional productivity and creativity, as known as the “Heroic Phase” or “The Middle Period”. Beethoven’s musical style and productivity were heavily based off Romanticism, the idea of expressing one self’s thoughts and emotions freely through the arts. He used composition as an outlet for the anger, bewilderment, melancholy, and heartbreak that had built up inside of him as he struggled with his temper, loss of hearing, and inability to find everlasting love. “With the aid of his music, Beethoven wrapped himself in a protective cloak of his own daydreams. Freud writes that “unsatisfied wishes are the driving power behind fantasies; every separate fantasy contains the fulfillment of a wish, and improves on unsatisfactory reality” (Solomon, p. 27). Many of the emotions towards Beethoven’s own unsatisfied wishes for affection, can especially be heard in the first movement of his famed Piano Sonata No. 14 in C Sharp minor, otherwise known as the “Moonlight Sonata”, nicknamed by critic and poet Ludwig Rellstab. The arrangement was dedicated to Countess Guiletta Guiciarrdi, a piano student who became romantically involved with the composer and perhaps inspired the piece.