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Beethoven's Major Accomplishments

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The life of Ludwig Van Beethoven starts on December 16, 1770 with his baptism in Bonn. His father was a musician with a weakness when it came to alcohol. His mother was a gentle, retired, sweet woman. Beethoven took an interest in music at a very young age. His father taught him to play more and more every day and night. At the age of 7, he performed his first public performance on March 26, 1778. His father announced that he was 6 years old which made him think that he was younger than he actually was. Soon, Beethoven learned music like the organ and compositions of famous musicians like Gottlob Neefe. Neefe noticed Beethoven's talent and taught him music, but also insisted that he knew the works of philosophers, ancient and modern. In 1782, …show more content…

Beethoven’s music, which is generally split into three periods, reflects the gradual decline in his hearing. The Early Period lasts from Beethoven’s childhood to around 1803, when he had both the First and Second Symphonies under his belt in addition to the accomplishments described above. During this period, he could mostly hear and his music was characterized by higher notes. The Middle Period starts right around the time Beethoven’s decline in hearing was becoming severe and ends just before the 1820s when he was presumed to be totally deaf. This period is characterized by lower notes, with the number of high notes he used dropping significantly. As you can probably guess, since high notes were giving him trouble, he switched to lower notes so that he could better hear the music he was creating. Compositions like the Moonlight sonata, the opera Fidelio, and six symphonies, among others, were written during the Middle Period. The Late Period starts just before 1820. During this time, his music switched back to including more high notes. If he wasn’t already fully deaf at the start of this period, he was likely close to it. The reintroduction of higher pitched notes suggest that he was resolved to “listening” with his inner ear rather than actually hearing the music he was creating. His greatest accomplishment during the Late Period was the Ninth Symphony. When you compose, you learn to hear (or think) the music in your head. The more you compose on paper, then actually hear it performed, the better this "in your head" music become. Beethoven was a master. He understood

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