Do you know the works Symphony 9 and Egmont these piano pieces were created and performed by the musical blessing known as Beethoven. The man who single handedly created the musical figure of piano in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. To begin Ludwig van Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770 and left this world on March 26, 1827 but his time spent on earth was time the earth began to change its way the people living here learned how to listen to music and appreciate, this was the time for change. Not only was Beethoven a german pianist but during his musical career he became deaf. Beethoven’s family life was much normal on his birthday December 16 of 1770 he was baptised by the Catholic church along with his six siblings: Kaspar Anton Karl Van Beethoven, Johann Peter Anton Laym, Anna Maria Francisca Van Beethoven, Nikolaus Johann Van Beethoven, Franz Georg Van Beethoven and Maria Margarita Van Beethoven but not all lived, unfortunately due to the time era they were born in. With the …show more content…
Beethoven died on March 26, 1827, but in the year of 1811 is when he was struck by a serious illness not one that he had when he as child. The doctors that he visited sent him to a Bohemian span in Teplitz and this seemed to work but once he left and that was in the winter he became very ill once more, and Beethoven was sent back to the spa treatment where he wrote a letter titled “Immortal Beloved” people have made speculations stating that it is seemed to be sent to one of his past lovers. The worst was yet to come through, when Ludwig Van Beethoven was 27 years old, he started hearing a constant buzzing sound in his ears. While at the age of thirty he wrote to his doctor friend letting him know what was happening to him and particularly that his hearing has been growing weaker and weaker by the day. This deafness affected him a great deal both in his personal life as well as his