Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven suffered from tinitus resulting in deafness by his 30th birthday. Later in life, possibly due to heavy drinking, he developed liver disease.

The Classical Period. that was in the 1800's

beethoven is an important figure in music history. he's known as one of the best musical geniuses ever. he was brilliant at symphony and piano playing.

Ludwig Van Beethoven made music when he was deaf by feeling vibrations and hearing the music in his head. He didn't become deaf until later in his life, so he had music theory well established in his mind and 'ear' well before that happened. If he had been totally deaf from birth, he would never have been able to write music, or to have a career as a pianist/musician.

Some scholars claim Beethoven's death was due, in part, to lead poisoning. Beethoven died at age 56.

Tests have recently confirmed that Beethoven died as a result of lead poisoning. This was attested to by the fact that he suffered from stomach ailments for much of his life, another sign of lead poisoning.

It is not known what caused Beethoven's exposure to lead poisoning for so much of his life. There is speculation that, because he was a fairly heavy drinker, he perhaps drank from lead cups. Another alternative is that, because he had consulted so many doctors for his various ailments, lead exposure may have come from the many medical treatments he received which, in his time, were often laced with heavy metals. See the Web Link below regarding these tests.

Controversy continues to rage, with ideas being that he died from the complications of a chill, kidney failure, and lead poisoning. The latter theory is receiving much attention with new testing procedures possible on Beethoven's hair. An autopsy was performed, and if you're of medical bent or have a strong stomach, check the Web Link below.

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Beethoven composed his first piece of music, which was a song (lieder) at the age of 11. This means he started writing music in 1781. In 1787, he started to receive his first composition lessons, from Mozart.

Mozart traveled a lot, but spent most of his life in Austria.

He was certainly a genius, but not necessarily 'like' Mozart. He is a hero of mine, particularly because of some of the ways he was unlike Mozart. I don't mean to diminish Mozart's mythic greatness one bit; Mozart is arguably the greatest composer who will ever draw breath.

The appealing thing about Beethoven's genius is that he had to put enormous effort into his writing, if evidence to that effect is accurate. He labored over what he wrote and re-wrote materials quite a lot before arriving at final versions. Again, if the evidence is sound, Mozart wrote with lightning speed, sometimes in his head, and produced much of his output in final form at the first scoring. There is some evidence that this might not be as true as some have indicated, but it seems clear that he didn't have to struggle nearly as hard as Beethoven. Writing music must have been almost a facile skill for Mozart. This is paraphrased and I do not know the source, but I read years ago that Mozart said "Writing music is the easiest thing in the world to do... once you know how to do it." In all probability Beethoven would never have said anything remotely like this.

Beethoven also lived and wrote at the very dawning of the Romantic period, and much of his music reflects and presages the aesthetics and style of that unfolding era.

Bagpipes.

You have to learn the complex fingering.

You have to learn breath control.

You must learn how to manipulate the bag.

And you must go completely deaf so ye can stand to be around bagpipes, laddie.

All of Beethoven's symphonies were given numbers as names. Some, however were given titles too. For example, the 3rd symphony was named the 'Eroica' Symphony and the 6th symphony was named the 'Pastoral' symphony.

Beethoven initially wrote in the Classical period, but provided the transition to the Romantic period.

The genres of music Beethoven composed were mainly piano sonatas, piano concertos and symphonies, along with other ensemble instrumental music such as trios and quartets, songs (lieder) and one opera.

One of Beethoven's lovers was Elise. This comes from the song Fur Elise which actually the "Fur" means For Elise. If you look at the song, you come across a minor part at the end of the song before the melody again. This part supposedly represents when Elise broke up with Beethoven.

The 60s hit 'a whiter shade of pale' by procul harum is based on Bach, I believe. I couldn't say what Bach other than Johann sebastien............

As a matter of fact the organ chords in the piece are indeed similar to Johann Sebastiaan Bach's Air on the G string.

A lot of world hits are using the chords of Pachelbel's Canon in D.

No, he was born in Bonn and his nationality was a German.

Count Nikolaus Esterhazy

There are no records to indicate that Beethoven ever married.

He first learnt his music when he was 5 years old.

The Surprise Symphony is a symphony written by Franz Joeseph Hayden. He has also made many more for example, the goodbye symphony

Beethoven wrote works on commission for various members of the royal and political families during the 18th and 19th centuries. Most famously might be his relationship with the Austrian nobleman Andrey Kirilovich Razumovsky to whom Beethoven dedicated his op. 59 string quartets and the 5th and 6th symphonies.

Herr Beethoven wrote only one Opera, Fedelio in 1805.

Simply the answer is yes because uncomfortable as it may sound, Hitler had an extensive art collection and under the auspicies of the NSDAP Bruckner`s music, in particular, his symphonies were actively promoted. It was during the 1930s under Hitler that serious academic study was undertaken to determine authentic performing editions. Until this time the symphonies were corrupted by well-intentioned students that tried to "Wagnerise" the symphonies by making extensive cuts and in some cases, adding their own music. The appeal of Bruckner to the NSDAP was a ready one as Bruckner was a country fellow with a rural aspect to his nature that the proganda of Nazi Germany was all too willing to use for their own purposes. Strangely, Bruckner`s music has not been associated with the Nazis ideals to its detrement as had been the case with the music-dramas of Wagner. Whether this has more to do with Wagner`s anti-semetic writings remains to be answered. Bruckner had no such known opinions but he did regard Wagner`s music as pure genius. The coda to the 2nd movement of Bruckner`s 7th symphony is a farewell to his beloved meister.