Ludwig Van Beethoven

Beethoven's baptism

Dec 17, 1770

Beethoven was born in Bonn. His musical talent was obvious at an early age, and he was initially harshly and intensively taught by his father Johann van Beethoven. We don't know when Beethoven born, but we know when he baptismed. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNPQrG33ZPg )

Beethoven's first public appearance

Mar 26, 1778

Beethoven's first known public performance, in Cologne. His father advertised his age as six years, although he was in fact seven, probably to draw favourable comparisons with the child prodigy Mozart. He played 'various clavier concertos and trios'. As Beethoven said 'Music is a mediator between the life of the mind and the life of the senses'

Beethoven drop out of school definetely

1781

Ludwig droped out of school definetely. In the photo is thirteen years old.

First compositions

1783

Beethoven composes his first piece, aged 12. Nine Variations on a March by Dressler includes clever harmonies, delightful melodic phrasing and hints at his later musical character.

Meets Mozart

1787

Beethoven achieves his long-held ambition to travel to Vienna and meets Mozart. As Mozart reputedly said, “one day, [that boy] will give the world something to talk about.” Barely two weeks after arriving, and having impressed Mozart so much he agrees to take him on as a pupil, Beethoven has to return to Bonn where his mother is dying of phymatiosis. By the time he returns to Vienna nearly five years later, Mozart is dead.

Beethoven start loosing his hearing

1797

He was almost completely deaf by 1814.
"For the last three years my hearing has grown steadily weaker..." - so wrote Beethoven, in a letter to a friend. The loosing of the hearing it's terrible for a musician. It's like Leonardo Da Vinci were blind and still painting the Mona Lisa
(Here 's the celebrating google doodle for his 245th birthday anniversary: https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-ludwig-van-beethovens-245th-year)

Moonlight sonata

1801

The moonlight sonata was written at 1801 and dedicated (1802) to his student Giuletta Guicciardi. (Moonlight sonata: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU)

The 5th Symphony

Dec 22, 1808

The symphony was written around 1804 and 1808, but the premier was at 22 December of 1808 (The 5th symphony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mdyCDpdec4)

The 9th Symphony - Ode To Joy

1822

The 9th Symphony-also known as Ode to Joy-was written at Fall of 1822.When the concert finished, the audience cheered. Because of the deaf of Beethoven,Caroline Unger walked over and turned him around to accept the cheers."The audience acclaimed him through standing ovations five times there were hats in the air, and raised hands, so that Beethoven, could at least see the ovations" (9th Symphony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-mvutiDRvQ)

Death

Mar 26, 1827

It all started when Beethoven contracted pneumonia and his doctor, began therapy. According to his notes, he gave him an anti-inflammatory drug to help lung function. However, the drug had awful side effects. His stomach filled with fluid that had overflowed his lungs. In fact, his tumor was so large that it compressed his septum and shortned his breath.To relieve him, the doctor made a hole in stomach and remove huge amounts of fluid. At that time,instead of antibiotics,lead-mercury were used.

Für Elise

1867

We don't know when Beethoven wrote his composition, but it launched after his death, at 1867. In fact, his student ''Elise'' is propably Therese Malfatti or Elisabeth Rockel. He wrote the beginning with easy notes so that she could play the song-but when he found out that she was engaged, he made the rest of the song extremely complicated so that she wouldn't be able to play it (Für Elise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_UOuSklNL4)