Ludwig+van+Beethoven

__Ludwig van Beethoven __ //(Sentences in bold and italic are reasons of being recognized as groundbreaker)// __//Background //__ Ludwig Van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, on 17th of December 1770 and died on 26th of March 1827 in Vienna. Beethoven was a outstanding german composer and pianist. //**In the Western classic music, Beethoven is considered the most crucial figure during the Classical and Romantic transitional period. And today he is still recognised and the most influential figure of all time.**//

__//Early Life //__ Beethoven's father Johann Van Beethoven was Beethoven's first music teacher, it was known that Johann was both a strict teacher, some people said he makes Beethoven stand when he play piano when Beethoven was still a children but there is no evidence. Beethoven has other music teachers that taught him different things, for example Tobias Friedrich Pfeiffer (a family friend, who taught Beethoven piano), Franz Rovantini (violin and viola).

Some years later, in 1779, Beethoven started to study with his most important teacher in Bonn, Christian Gottlob Neefe. Neefe taught Beethoven composition, and soon Beethoven became a assistant of Neefe. Beethoven's first composition, the WoO 63 was also completed and published twith the help of Neefe in 1783 On March 1787 at the age of 17 Beethoven travelled to Vienna for his first time, apparently in the hope of studying with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. No one actually know if Beethoven did study with Mozart did they even meet, because just two weeks after arriving at Vienna Beethoven heard the news that his mother had became ill, and so Beethoven was forced to return home. His mother died shortly after Beethoven's arrival, and his father lapsed deeper into alcoholism. Beethoven is now going to take care of his two younger brothers, and he had spend the next five years in Bonn.

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Beethoven was naturally talented in music although influences form Mozart, Haydn or Clementi did effect Beethoven very much. Things that separated Beethoven from all his influences were his characteristic emotions, his melodies, use of texture and his excellent musical development. //**Beethoven's music became a demand of publishers and patrons of music by the end of 1800 and it is still the same case nowadays**.//=====

__//Deafness //__
Everyone who knows Beethoven, probably knows that he loss his hearing in middle age. No one knows the true cause of his deafness but many says it's because of all his bad habits like spraying cold water on his head to keep him awake. The deafness of Beethoven caused many problems to Beethoven both in casual life or music composing. It makes Beethoven hard to hear what others were talking about and it makes it even harder or him to compose new music. At first when Beethoven began to loss his hearing musics, he played often sounds too loud our too soft, and this even led Beethoven to contemplate suicide. //**Beethoven didn't completely stopped composing music after being deaf instead he became even more hard working on writing music and the famous compositions you here today by Beethoven was mostly written by Beethoven after he loss his hearing.**//

Because Beethoven was deaf, he had a conversation book. This was a very unique historical record, the conversation books of Beethoven was preserved until today but unfortunately 264 out of the 400 conversation books were destroyed by Anton Schindler. (Date unknown)

// __Why should he be considered a groundbreaker? __ // Beethoven should be considered a groundbreaker because how influential he is to the music world and how he can still write the best western compositions ever when he is actually deaf. He should also be considered a groundbreaker because he successfully ended the Classical period with some excellent compositions and made a good start to the Romantic period with other great composers.

=//**__Reflections:__**//=

__**//What is success?//**__
I think success is to reaching a goal you've set.

__**//Personal qualities needed for success?//**__
I think being trustful, hardworking, self control and having some skills will be needed for success.

__**//Dictionary definition of success?//**__

 * 1) //obsolete : outcome, result//
 * 2) //degree or measure of succeeding b : favorable or desired outcome; also : the attainment of wealth, favor, or eminence//
 * 3) //one that succeeds//

__**//My definition of success?//**__
Achieve a result that you had been aiming to get.

__**//My definition of success? ( Ms. Rogge's class)//**__
To me the definition of success is to get nearly all A's or A*'s in my tests and exams and of course reports. To achieve this i must work harder and listen more carefully in class, also i'll have to revise more and carefully before the tests to get a good mark.

__//**Why do people fall short of ac**//____//**hieving their potential?**//__
I think people fall short of achieving their potential because of their fear, confidence and how much they care about what others said.

__//**What did I learn about success in Ms. Rogge's class?**//__
I learned that to succeed you need to know the meaning of success of yourself, without making sure what success mean to you it's very hard to achieve what you want.

//**__Why does God want us to achieve our full potential?__**//
I think god want us to achieve our full potential because working at your full potential will make every work you do very good and by looking at your work others can see the best that you can do.

__//**WIKI project - compared to a written assignment.**//__
I like doing the wiki project more than other hand written assignments, because first of all, I like doing work on computer because I like using internet! Secondly, I enjoyed writting wiki pages because it feels like you are making a website.

__Bibliography __ Opus 33, "Ludwig van Beethoven", __[]__, September 3rd 2010

"Classical Music", __[]__, September 3rd 2010 Narayan, "Death of Ludwig van Beethoven", [], September 4th 2010

"Ludwig van Beethoven", [], September 4th 2010