Ludwig Van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

Born on December 16, 1770 and died on March 26, 1827 at age 57. Ludwig Van Beethoven was a composer during the classical era of music, but his compositions led to the end of that period and to the start of the romantic era. He helped greatly to develop tonal music. One of the amazing things about Beethoven was that he was deaf. At his last symphony, “Ninth Symphony”, he had to turn around and look at the audience to see if they were clapping. He was greatly influenced by the composers Haydn and Bach. He greatly influenced his music with the power of romanticism.

Beethoven’s father, Johann Van Beethoven, was bass singer at the court of Elector of Cologne and became Ludwig Van Beethoven’s first music teacher. He was later trained by the teachers Gilles van den Eeden, Franz Rovantini, and Tobias Friedrich Pfeiffer. Ludwig was a child prodigy and amazingly enough, gave his first performance in 1778 at age seven.
This song by Beethoven makes me feel like I'm in a Twilight movie, if that was a good thing. It feels like there is very slow rising action action that is played in a movie where nothing too eventful happens for a long time.
Ludwig Van Beethoven was a composer during the classical era in music. He had many accomplishments and overcame many obstacles to become one of the greatest musical composers in history. He wrote many amazing works that are still performed often today and his music slingshotted society into the next period of music, the romantic