Friday, March 25, 2011

Music History : German Composer Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven ( 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827)

He was born on  Bonn, the 19th largest city in Germany and baptized in a Catholic parish of St. Remiguis. In modern days, Classical music had been associated with Beethoven but also regarded as the first composer in the Romantic period.

He moved to Vienna on his early twenties and studied with Joseph Haydn, who was often called the "father of Symphony and String Quartet".  A  great composer who experienced the loss of hearing which started on  1796.  Even when he was a completely deaf, he continued to  write music, conduct and perform.

His musical style was the creation of large, extended architectonic structure characterized by the extensive development of the musical material, themes and motifs, usually by modulation, through a variety of keys or harmonic regions.

His  works includes nine symphonies, thirty-two piano sonatas, sixteen string quartets. Some of them are op. 21, Symphony no.1 in C, op.138. Overture Leonore no., in C, Piano Concerto in E-Flat, Pathetique, Fur Elise, and Moonlight Sonata

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