Ludwing Van Beethoven

Ludwig Van Beethoven
Ludwig Van Beethoven was baptized 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827 was a German composer and pianist. He remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, in present-day Germany, he moved to Vienna in his early twenties and settled there, studying with Joseph Haydn and quickly gaining a reputation as a talented pianist. His hearing began todeteriorate in the late 1790s, yet he continued to compose, conduct, and perform, even after becoming completely deaf.
His parents were Johann van Beethoven (1740–1792) y Maria Magdalena Keverich(1746–1787) and he had 7 sisters and brothers but 5 died when they were kids.
He wrote very important symphonies which changed music.

What was unique about the person?
He was a great composer andpianist. He continued to compose, conduct and perform, even after becoming completely deaf.

What can you find out about the person’s thinking?
He loved music very much, that is why when he startedgetting deaf he thought about suicide.

What interesting quotations by the person can you find?
“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”
“Music isa higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy”
“Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men”

What other people have thought and said about them?
“If Beethoven had beenkilled in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music, and of aviation” Tom Stoppard
“Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetratedinto the ear of man” E.M. Forster
People think that he was a music genius.

What stories or anecdotes can you find about them?

• One day, Beethoven went to a restaurant at Vienna where he used togo. Before the waiter arrived he started to write music in a paper. He was so concentrated on his work that the waiter didn´t take him the order. Then Beethoven shouted: Waiter, the account!

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