How Did Beethoven Become Deaf

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This essay is about one of the greatest composers all time, Ludwig van Beethoven. Even though Beethoven became deaf, he composed many of the most famous musical works. Some things that I wanted to learn about Beethoven through my research were why he became deaf, when did he compose his last symphony and how he grew up.
The composer’s name is Ludwig van Beethoven although he is commonly known as ‘Beethoven’. He was born on the 16th of December 1770 in Germany, in the city of Bonn in the Electorate of Cologne, a principality of the Holy Roman Empire. Beethoven was baptized on 17th of December. He was a German composer and pianist. He had two younger brothers, Caspar, born in 1774, and Johann, born in 1776. Beethoven’s mother was Maria Magdalena van …show more content…

His father pushed him to learn instruments at a very young age. It was known that he was wept while playing the clavier, standing on top of the footstool to reach the keys, his father would beat him for each hesitation or mistake. Beethoven was flogged, locked and disadvantaged of sleep for extra hours of practice almost every day. He studied violin and clavier with his father and as well as having extra lessons from organists around their neighbourhood. Beethoven struggled with sums and spelling his entire life. He used to say “Music comes to me more readily than words” (biography.com). In 1781, when he was 10 years old he withdrew from school to study music full time. He studied with Christian Gottlob Neefe, the newly appointed Court Organist. Beethoven published his first composition, a set of piano variations on a theme named Dressler at the age of twelve. In 1784, Beethoven formally requested an official appointment as Assistant Court Organist because his father was no longer there to support his family due to his alcoholism being worse and the decay of his voice. Beethoven was accepted and was put on the court payroll with a modest annual salary of 150

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