Ludwig van Beethoven is a composer who became a legend during his lifetime. His talent and passion were so strong that even when he lost his hearing, he never stopped creating.
The great composer was born on December 1770, 16 in the city of Bonn in the family of tenor Johann van Beethoven. Being born into a family of artists determined who he would become in the future.
Beethoven's first teacher was his own father, who wanted his son to be the second Mozart. That is why the four-year-old boy practiced music for 6 hours a day.
Beethoven's family was not very rich, after the death of his grandfather, they began to live in poverty. 14-year-old Ludwig is forced to drop out of school and work with his father.
In 1787, Ludwig's mother died, and his father turned to alcoholism. In this way, Beethoven takes all the responsibility to feed his siblings. He starts working as a violist in the palace orchestra, thus he also gets to know the world of opera.
A few years later, in order to find a good teacher, the future composer moved to Vienna and spent the rest of his life there. He took lessons from Haydn for a time, but soon realized that Haydn was not the one to teach him anything. Thus, Beethoven left Haydn and began to learn from Celery.
Beethoven began writing his first symphonies in 1800. By 1811, he was completely deaf and confined to his house. His public performances were the composer's main source of income, and Beethoven also taught music to the children of the nobility.
After losing his hearing, the composer falls into a trap of helplessness. However, this did not stop him from creating. Beethoven used a special stick, one end of which was fixed to the front panel of the piano, while biting the other end, he felt with his teeth the tone emanating from the instrument through the vibration of the stick.
The composer wrote his most famous works during this period. He valued friendship very much and never let his friends live in poverty. He repeated many times that if he always had a piece of bread with him, he would share it with his friend, and if he could not find a loaf of bread at home, he would immediately start working to help his friend.
The composer usually worked on several works at the same time. In 1824, the ninth symphony was presented. Its conductor was Beethoven himself, and the public greeted the symphony with applause. The great composer did not hear either their applause or the orchestra. Then one of the choir singers took her by the hand and turned her towards the hall so that she could see the audience.
In 1889, a house-museum was opened in the house belonging to the Beethoven family in Bonn, full of exhibits related to the composer's life and the period in which he lived.
