During the life of Beethoven, he had the struggle of deafness. The time where he made the most of the important works was the last ten years of his life, when he was really unable to hear at all. Beethoven was considered the greatest music composer of all time, for his great skills in composing and his pianist …show more content…
Accounts where provided by the neighbors of the small boy weeping while he played the clavier. Standing atop a footstool to reach the keys of the piano, his father would beat him for every time he had a hesitation or a small mistake. Beethoven was flogged, locked in the cellar and got deprived of sleep so he could more practice in, and this was on a daily basis. He also studied the violin and studied the clavier with his father, and had additional lessons from the organists around the town. Because or in spite of the fathers draconian methods, Beethoven was a talented musician from the early days and showed flashes of the creative imagination that would reach him farther than any of composer’s before or ever …show more content…
Billed as the “little son of six years”, although he was seven. Beethoven played incredibly but received no press whatsoever. But while the music prodigy attended a Latin grade school named Tirocinium, where a classmate said. “Not a sign was to be discovered and the sparks of genius which glowed so brilliantly in him afterwards”.
Beethoven struggled with sums and spelling his whole life, was at an average student, some biographers have hypothesized that he may have had mild dyslexia. As Beethoven put it himself, “Music comes to me more readily than words”. In the year of 1781, at the age of 10, Beethoven stopped going to school and went to studying music full time with Christian Gottlob Neefe, Newly appointed Court Organist. Neefe introduced Beethoven to Bach, at twelve Beethoven published the first composition of his life. His first composition was a set of piano variations on a theme by an obscure classical composer named