Music: Ludwig Van Beethoven

Music is might not be the universal language but it plays an important role in human culture as well as the society. Music is not only provide entertainment but it is also a tool for a composer and listeners to release emotion. The best well-known for his inspiring power and expressiveness music is Ludwig van Beethoven. He was a musical genius whose composed some of the most influential pieces of music ever written. During the Classical period, Beethoven’s compositions were the expression as one of the most powerful musical personalities. Although Beethoven was influenced by most of the famous composers such as Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, etc. but he was also innovated new techniques that will be seen in the next music period. Beethoven built a musical bridge from the Classical style and the new beginning of Romanticism. Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany and was baptized on December 17, 1770. He was the descendant of two generations of the court musician, Ludwig van Beethoven, his grandfather and Johann van Beethoven, his father. Beethoven’s father cruelly made him practice music every night until the morning next day so that he could claim Beethoven as a profitable child prodigy like Mozart at a time. When Beethoven was eight years old, he gave his first public performance as a pianist. Few years later, Beethoven held a position as assistant to the court organist, Christian Gottlob Neefe, and that when he received the necessary systematic training in piano performance and composition. In early 1787, he went to Vienna to study under Mozart but quickly returned when he heard his mother was dying. Mozart reportedly said to people about Beethoven, “Keep you eyes on him; someday he will give the world something to talk about,” Mozart commented on Beethoven. (Kamien 254). After his mom died, Beethoven at the age of nineteen had to look after his two younger brothers and a father who had become an alcoholic. At the age of