BEETHOVEN PROJECT

Beethoven was born December 16, 1770

Beethoven's parents names were Johann van Beethoven and Maria Magdalena Keverich. His siblings names were Anton Karl, Nikkolaus Johann, and Maria Margaretha Josepha

From an young age, Beethoven was introduced to music. His first teacher was his father who was also very strict. Beethoven was beaten for failure to practice correctly. One time his mother protested at his father’s violent beatings, but she was beaten too. It is said, Beethoven resolved to become a great pianist so his mother would never be beaten.

Beethoven's stylistic innovations bridge the Classical and Romantic periods. The works of his early period brought the Classical form to its highest expressive level, expanding in formal, structural, and harmonic terms the musical idiom developed by predecessors such as Mozart and Haydn. The works of his middle and late periods were even more forward-looking, appropriately being categorized in and contributing to the musical language and thinking of the Romantic era.

He was a composer, music writer, music player and he pretty much played music his entire life

Beethoven’s health problems began to show up when he was in his 20s. He had problems with diarrhea and abdominal pain, which were to be a lifelong issue for him. His most famous problem was him being deaf but the great composer had many other health problems: migraine headaches, rheumatism, bronchitis, jaundice, painful eye inflammation and nosebleeds, to name a few. His final illness was a combination of diarrhea, jaundice and pneumonia, among other things, and he died in a delirium at age 56.

Beethoven's deafness was the result of lead poisoning, and lead poisoning was also the cause of Beethoven's death.

Beethoven loved cooking, so much so that he named one of his pieces "Christ! On the Mount of Olives

He was jealous that Rimsky-Korsakov wrote an opera called "Mozart and Salieri" instead of "Mozart and Beethoven

THREE MOST FAMOUS WORKS

• Moonlight sonata
• Fur elise
• Ode to joy

He died March 26, 1827