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Ludwig van Beethoven – the Deaf Genius of Sounds Beethoven was born in 1770 in Bonn , however, most of his life of a musician he spent in Vienna . His early teachers of music playing and composing were Mozart and Haydn who created the Beethoven’s base to compose classical music which was the source of rapture for the audience at that time.
Of course, Beethoven’s ‘genius’ title in the world of sounds was reasoned by two significant events:
Actually there are two thing composed by Beethoven which are well-known by everybody, even by those who are not engaged in the world of music. The first one is Moonlight Sonata and the second one is Symphony 9 – the Beethoven’s last work which can be truly considered as his final testament. While Beethoven’s personal life is full of conjectures: some scholars suggest he was homosexual and support their idea by the evidence he did never married; other scholars presume he was never successful with the women round him because he could not adapt himself to the real world where women were not so artistic, magnificent and perfect. This Beethoven’s feature was well described by Goethe who met the composer in 1811. Although Goethe found Beethoven the hard person to get on with he admired Beethoven’s spirituality, vitality and power to fight against reality. Beethoven died in 1827, totally deaf and over liver disease. However, he left scholars one more mystery – the real reason of his death. They are still wondering whether it was poisoning, bad liver or some psychological disorder. Beethoven was a grateful successor of the German Romantic school enriched by such geniuses as Schiller, Goethe, Schubert, Hoffman. One of the greatest evidences of his Romantic heritage is Symphony 9 which he put on the Schiller’s Ode to Joy. For centuries its listeners feel something breathtaking and magnificent in this music despite some music scholars are still disputing its breaches in classic composition. What is the most mystical in this symphony is how totally deaf and misunderstood man could create the sounds which are still inspiring all listeners and make them fly full of joy, power and optimism. |
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