On 16 December 1770, the brilliant musician Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany. His father, himself a musician, saw special qualities in Ludwig and at an early age forced him to play the piano and violin for many hours a day. Due to his family's financial situation, he was hardly able to attend school and spent his childhood exclusively working and learning music.
At the age of only 7 he gave his first concert in front of an audience, and by the age of 12 he had already written his first piece, a musical composition of extraordinary complexity. That is why his father sent him to Vienna, the capital of music, to learn under the great Joseph Haydn.
Beethoven was a turning point in the history of music. He was the great pioneer of Romanticism, a new cultural movement that broke with Classicism, a trend that was very strict with the creative process and left little room for individual creativity. With Romanticism, creative freedom reached its maximum expression. and Beethoven was its greatest exponent, a revolutionary who did not accept impositions or limitations.
Beethoven was a person very prone to illness and throughout his life he suffered from typhus, cholera, rheumatism and numerous infectious diseases. But his biggest problem was deafness, a nightmare for any musician. At the age of 26 he began to have problems with hearing loss, and twenty years later he became totally deaf. Any other musician would have had to give up his musical career, but Beethoven never stopped and continued to compose and perform even after being totally deaf.
Beethoven died in 1827 at the age of 56 from a liver ailment due to his alcoholism. His deafness gradually turned him into a distant, antisocial and surly person, which led him to take refuge in alcohol addiction. Despite this, he retained his genius intact and in fact some of his best works were composed while suffering from total deafness.
Beethoven composed over 300 works, of which the 9 symphonies are the most famous and well known
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