BY DEEP PARMAR

Birth and childhood

Born in Bonn, Germany
in 1770.
His father was Ludwigs
first music teacher.
Ludwig had to practice
many nights when his
father came home
drunk.
Ludwig showed an
interest in composing
when he was a child.

Young adulthood
Beethoven went to Vienna,
Vienna Austria to learn more
about composing
when he was 17.
He had to return
home when his
mother died,
and help raise
his brothers.

Return to Vienna
When Beethoven was 22, he moved
to Austria and never returned to
Germany.
He learned from Haydn, another great
composer, ...and
played for Mozart
before he died.

His Later Years

He still composed
when he was
deaf..
how could he do
this?

Why write when you cant hear?

He could hear
the music
inside his
head.and he
wasnt
bothered with
other noises
around him.

His temperament
Beethoven was not
easy to be around.
He had a temper, and
he was very
demanding.
He would get lost in
his own thoughts and
would get impatient
with others when they
didnt do what he
thought they should
do.

He criticized other
musicians when they
didnt perform his
pieces the way he
wanted them to
sound.
His whole life was
very stormy there
were many sad and
discouraging times.

His Most Famous Work

The Symphony No. 5 in C minor of Ludwig Beethoven,
Op. 67, was written in 18041808. It is one of the most
popular and best-known compositions in classical
music, and one of the most frequently played
symphonies.
First performed in Vienna's theatre an de win in
1808, the achieved its prodigious reputation work soon
afterwards. E.T.A. Hoffman described the symphony as
"one of the most important works of the time".
It begins by stating a distinctive four-note "short-shortshort-long" motif twice.

Instruments he composed for

Beethoven scored for the entire symphony
orchestra. However, many of his compositions
were also for string quartets, string trios, wind
quintets, wind octets, and so on. If the voice can
be considered an instrument, not many people
area aware that Beethoven wrote well over a
hundred lieder, or songs.
Beethoven was the first composer to score the
human voice as an instrument within the
symphony (9th Symphony).
In addition, Beethoven was well known for his
piano compositions, in particular the piano
concertos and the piano sonatas.

Beethovens death
Beethoven died in Vienna,
Austria in 1827.
It was storming when he
died. (There was
thundering during a snow
storm!)
Beethoven raised his fist
toward the storm and fell
back on his bed, dying.
50,000 lined the streets at
his funeral to pay tribute
to this great man.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Because his music
was so fiery, powerful,
and different from the
music that came
before him, his music
marks the beginning
of a new era of music
in history, the
ROMANTIC ERA.

PowerPoint based on the

wonderful work by Beethoven
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