Why Is Beethoven So Beautiful
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.” Ludwig Van Beethoven stated about, not only his calling in life, but what his entire life was devoted to. Beethoven is undoubtedly considered one of, if not the best, composer of all time. His music not only was a marvel in itself, but towards the end of his life, he composed some of his most well known music completely deaf, and that gives his music a whole new astounding factor. Throughout Beethoven’s life, he was never content, he was always seeking out something new or something better. That is one reason that his music is so beautiful, because he was always trying to find the new factor, the thing
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Yet his fathers teaching habits were very often cruel, he was daily either flogged, locked in the cellar, or deprived of sleep. Neighbors often gave accounts of young Ludwig standing on a footstool to reach the claviers’ keys, and with every hesitation or mistake, his father would beat him. Many historians believe that this is one reason that Ludwig never excelled in his normal schooling. But the cruel teaching methods of his father ended up leading the young boy to a status of musical prodigy, and by 1784, he was hired as a court musician. In 1787, Beethoven went to, for a short time, study under Mozart, and when Mozart heard Ludwig, he said, “Keep your eyes on him; some day he will give the world something to talk …show more content…
Beethoven wrote many compositions during his lifetime, but many historians believe the number is nowhere as high as Bach or Mozart, merely because Beethoven was a complete perfectionist. So most of his pieces ended up being trashed. “From 1803-1812, what is known as his "middle" or "heroic" period, he composed an opera, six symphonies, four solo concerti, five string quartets, six string sonatas, seven piano sonatas, five sets of piano variations, four overtures, four trios, two sextets and 72 songs. The most famous among these were symphonies No. 3-8, the "Moonlight Sonata," the "Kreutzer" violin sonata and Fidelio, his only
Yet his fathers teaching habits were very often cruel, he was daily either flogged, locked in the cellar, or deprived of sleep. Neighbors often gave accounts of young Ludwig standing on a footstool to reach the claviers’ keys, and with every hesitation or mistake, his father would beat him. Many historians believe that this is one reason that Ludwig never excelled in his normal schooling. But the cruel teaching methods of his father ended up leading the young boy to a status of musical prodigy, and by 1784, he was hired as a court musician. In 1787, Beethoven went to, for a short time, study under Mozart, and when Mozart heard Ludwig, he said, “Keep your eyes on him; some day he will give the world something to talk …show more content…
Beethoven wrote many compositions during his lifetime, but many historians believe the number is nowhere as high as Bach or Mozart, merely because Beethoven was a complete perfectionist. So most of his pieces ended up being trashed. “From 1803-1812, what is known as his "middle" or "heroic" period, he composed an opera, six symphonies, four solo concerti, five string quartets, six string sonatas, seven piano sonatas, five sets of piano variations, four overtures, four trios, two sextets and 72 songs. The most famous among these were symphonies No. 3-8, the "Moonlight Sonata," the "Kreutzer" violin sonata and Fidelio, his only