"Do you need to achieve your most ardent desires, and end up succeeding"
Ludwing van Beethoven
Early Life
On December 16th, 1770, in a small town of Bonn in Germany, one of the
best composers of the history was born, Ludwing van Beethoven. His parents
were: Johann van Beethoven (1740-1792) of Flemish origins, he was a mediocre
court singer better known for his alcoholism than any musical ability and
Magdalena Keverich van Beethoven (1744-1787); she was a slender, genteel, and
deeply moralistic woman. Beethoven had two younger brothers who survived into
adulthood, Caspar, born in 1774, and Johann, born in 1776.
Beethoven's father and grandfather were musicians themselves, so, the
first music teacher of Beethoven was his father. First, he taught to play de
piano, violin and clavier when he was just 4 years old, after people recognized
Beethoven as a "great child". At age of 8, he gave his first
public performance where it was his first step to his career when he was 12
Beethoven was consider a great interpret because he became an assistant
organist for the Prince-Elector orchestra he began to love to be in a musical
environment ( Favorite-classical- composer). When he was 17 he composed his
first three piano sonatas for that reason, since his earliest day Beethoven was
a prodigious talent musician to ever live.
In 1787, Beethoven moved to Vienna, where he studied with Joseph Haydn,
there he developed a great reputation as an amazing composer and impressive
violinist at the same time demonstrated his talent for the music. But unfortunately
when he was growing as a popular person, he returned to Bonn because his mother
died. After this tragedy he took the responsibility to take care his younger
brothers and his father, for that reason Beethoven stayed in Bonn for the next
five years.
Greewing Reputation
During he take care about his family, he never lose contact with
important people because he wanted to came back to musician environment. After
his father died, he did it. So, he involved as a composer in the middle
period, he was viewed as a transitional figure between the Classical and
Romance eras of musician history; it was an important period for his and his
career. The biggest example of this is the Third Symphony, called "Eroica
(Italian for "heroic"_ which he dedicated to the Corsican
revolutionary leader Napoleon Buonaparte. (Biography)
Other some important pieces include: fifth Symphony, Six Symphonies (Nos. 3-8),
the last three piano concertos and his only violin concerto, six quartets (Nos.
7-11) many pianos sonatas (including the 'Moonlight', 'Waldstein' and
'Appasionata') and Beethoven's only opera Fidelio (8notes).
Beethoven became to gain people whit his beautiful art of the
symphonies. In fact, the beginning of his reputation grew in this period
because he was shocked the entire world with his greatest compositions.
Disease and Death
Beethoven as all people had troubles the last years. He was only 26 when
he started suffering from hearing disorder (Tinnitus). He just could listen the
sounds with one hear, so, he faced a lot of difficulties in listening to music.
Nobody knew the cause of his deafness. Beethoven fell into depression, he wrote
a letter to his brothers where explained the condition where he was
living.
Beethoven never married, it was said to be in love with a woman who was
already married, but nobody never knew the name nor more about this woman, it
can be said that this was the most tragic period for Beethoven, he felt that
his whole career was coming down, he went into an uncomfortable state where
suicide was his first option because he felt that his life no made sense.
But then, he was helped by books where he was reported as a disease
break and focused on how to move forward after hearing loss.
His conversational books preserve dialogues between he
and his friends (they wrote what they wanted to say in these books as Beethoven
could not hear them anymore). These books also give us valuable insights into
how and what Beethoven thought about music on the whole and his compositions,
in particular. (buzzle).
Beethoven learned to listen just with the imagination, he imagine all
notes of the sound and continued composing. He regained the strength to keep
going, does not let defeat and returned to compose, and, it was during this
time that he created the famous and most important event of his life, the 9th
symphony which generated a great impact to the world as his fame was much
larger being deaf. Unfortunately, during his last years of life, his situation
was terrible, he became ill with gout, rheumatic fever, and a variety of other
illness. He had four stomach operations and after that, died in March 1827.
A person who loves what he does never gives up. Life is short, and
the best way to enjoy it, is doing the things that we like. We as people
know that life is full of obstacles and our mission is to overcome them. A
disease is a test that God puts us, and we have to find ways to face it. There
is no greater satisfaction than to see our dreams come true and never forget to
have a great imagination because imagination can makes possible to hear great
symphonies of life.
By: Daniel Villatoro
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