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    “Music is like a dream. Only that I cannot hear.”-Ludwig van Beethoven. In 1770, Ludwig van Beethoven was born. He composed many things and people had a hard time trying to decide what kind of composer he was. Everyone said he was going to be next Mozart. He went through life and composed many well-known compositions. Many people love his work and still listen to it to this day and his work is almost two hundred fifty years old. Ludwig van Beethoven was born to a family of musicians for the royal

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    When I was young I always heard the name, Ludwig van Beethoven. As I started my journey as a musician, I was introduced to learning about composers. A composer is a person who writes music, especially as a profession. One of the names that always stood out to me was Ludwig van Beethoven, maybe because of the movie Beethoven from my childhood. Throughout some point in Beethoven’s lifetime, he became one of Europe’s greatest classical composers. Only Mozart and Bach have similar phenomenal reputations-

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    Integrated Research Paper Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the world’s most prominent composer and pianist, and his work is continually being used, even hundreds of years after they were written. Beethoven was born around December 16th, 1770 in Bonn, Germany, and his life was effected by a lot of hardships. First, his father was known for his alcoholism, and he tended to be brutal in teaching Beethoven music. According to the Biography website, “Beethoven's father began teaching him music with an

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    German composer and pianist, Ludwig van Beethoven, was born December 1770 and spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria. His first teacher was his alcoholic father, who worked as a musician at the Court of Bonn. Teaching him day and night, Ludwig suffered from his father's harsh and erratic behavior. For a time, he and his father played at the Church. As his father's alcoholism increased, Ludwig became the main musician. Beethoven's talents were discovered at an early age, and he was sent

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    Abstract Ludwig Van Beethoven was one of the greatest musical composers of his time. Starting very young in his studies of music, he held many important positions they would develop him into the composer he became. Born in Bonn, Germany to a singer, he held his first position at the church. He later moved to Vienna where his composed several pieces, and even an opera. He created a new style of music, cyclic form. Background Ludwig van Beethoven (1770- 28 March

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    the people on it as a whole, you see that there are very few influential people whose actions or opinions strongly influence the course of events. Ludwig Van Beethoven, a German musician, is one of those very few. He was an extraordinary musician that lived through hardship and had the horrific fate of deafness, any musician’s worst nightmare. Beethoven left a wall standing in history that captured the art of sounds and worked it beyond imagination into music so fragile and pure yet onerous, unable

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    Ludwig van Beethoven All throughout music history lived many composers that have impacted not only the societies in which they have lived in, but modern-day society as well. These particular composers have given many societies the chance to listen, feel and express themselves through music and instruments that were invented centuries ago that still remain essential components of music today. One example of a composer that changed the music world drastically was a man by the name of Ludwig van Beethoven

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    The History of Ludwig Van Beethoven One of the world’s most fascinating classical German music composers, Ludwig Van Beethoven was more than just a man playing on the piano. Famous for more than just writing the piece Für Elise that most of us all know. He composed many songs with a force that not just every musician has; musical emotion. Each of his pieces captured and held a story about Beethoven. Did you know Beethoven was deaf? How could a composer, a musician, a musical genius, lack such an

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    Ludwig van Beethoven is known for much of his musical accomplishments. One of his most famous is that he is deaf and yet one of the best musical composers of the classical and romanic area. Beethoven has always been one of my personal favorite composers. When I grew up and started taking piano, Beethoven 's Fur Elise was my first large classical piece. Ever since that point on I insisted that when we were in Germany we see his home, and that we did. In this essay I will be explaining Ludwigs Youth

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    contributions brought by Ludwig van Beethoven. He was one of the most influential German composer and pianist of all time. Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany on December 16, 1770. His mother was a singer in the service and his father was a court musician. His father noticed that Beethoven had a skill at a young age, and began teaching him piano and violin. Beethoven was a hard learner, self-involved and impatient. Gottlob Neefe, become young Beethoven’s mentor, he thought Beethoven was the next Mozart

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