My favourite
music composer is beethoven. He is a susessful musician whom composed a
lot a wonderful music! His early
signs of musical talent were subjected to the capricious discipline of
his father, a singer in the court chapel. In 1789, because of his father's
alcoholism, the young Beethoven became a court musician in order to support
his family. Beethoven
study in Vienna, Austria, with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Although Mozart's
death in 1791 prevented this, Beethoven went to Vienna in 1792 and became
a pupil of Austrian composer Joseph Haydn. Beethoven's
major output consists of 9 symphonies, 7 concertos (5 for piano), 17 string
quartets, 32 piano sonatas, 10 sonatas for violin and piano, 5 sonatas
for cello and piano, an opera, 2 masses (see Mass, Musical Settings of),
several overtures (see Overture), and numerous sets of piano variations. By 1818
Beethoven had become virtually deaf and relied on small "conversation books"
in which visitors wrote their remarks to him. He withdrew from all but
a steadily shrinking circle of friends. Except for the premieres of his
Symphony no. 9 and parts of the Missa solemnis in 1824, his music remained
fashionable only among a small group of connoisseurs. His prestige was
still such, however, that during his last illness he received huge outpourings
of sympathy. He died
in Vienna on March 26, 1827. Tens of thousands witnessed his funeral procession.
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