Biography of beethoven for children

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Its opening theme is very well-known. Beethoven appealed and regained sole guardianship again. His son, Johann, however inherited little of the talents and all his life was a mediocre figure on the horizon of Bonn’s musical life. In 1888, Beethoven’s and Schubert’s remains were moved to another cemetery in Vienna and placed side by side.

Beethoven's Musical Legacy

Beethoven’s music is often divided into three periods: Early, Middle, and Late.

A long time desire to put Friedrich Schiller’s poem the Ode to joy into music, also started to shape in the form of the epic Ninth symphony. He was hailed five times in the age, when the Emperor usually received three! In 1795, he performed one of his piano concertos at a concert. During the journey he contracted a pneumonia, which was a fatal blow to his body’s immune system and finally lead to his death months later.

On his deathbed doctors conducted four operations addressing his abdominal swelling, from one of them an infection developed.

Subsequently, he published the Three piano trios, which was his first work with opus number, opus 1 (dedicated to Prince Lichnowsky). Beethoven stayed in Vienna that year, working on an opera and giving piano lessons.

In 1805, Beethoven wrote his only opera, which was called Fidelio. Neefe had learned from Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, who was the son of Johann Sebastian Bach.

So, Beethoven was allowed to go to Vienna. The public opinion considers the Ninth to be commissioned by London.

As archduke Rudolf was to become archbishop of Olmütz in 1820, Beethoven began to work on Missa Solemnis for the installation ceremony. It was dated October 6 and showed his growing frustration with his deafness.

The people of Vienna thought he was the greatest living composer.

In his deathbed giving in to the pressure from his brother, he signed a will and in it giving sole custody of his 9 years old son Karl, to Beethoven. His first commissioned piece came in 1790, when Joseph II. died and he was – with the recommendation of Neefe – requested to score a cantata in the emperor’s memory.

One of the people carrying a torch was Franz Schubert. Johann over the years became an alcoholic, an abusive father, a bad husband, overall a person without values.