BIOGRAPHY:
Ludwig Van Beethoven was born on December 17, 1770 in Bonn.
It is ainé of a family of seven children. His/her father,
musician, wish to make of him a child prodigy and to this end
a rigorous musical education inculcates to him. In 1778, the
Ludwig young person gives his first public representation in
Cologne. He is noticed by Gottlob Neefe which, conscious of
the extraordinary capacities of Beethoven, proposes to compensate
his/her father in his role of éducateur.En 1782, Beethoven
publishes his first œuvre: 9 variations, in C minor, for
piano. One speaks about him like future Mozart, the meeting
between the two men with place in 1787, at the time of the first
voyage of Ludwig in Vienna. The same year is remembered by the
death of his/her mother. His/her father more and more often
drunk is in the incapacity to ensure the education of his young
brothers, Ludwig will undertake all his life it.
In 1792, Beethoven
settles in Vienna where it becomes one of the dominant personalities
of the musical world. It devotes a great part of its time to
the composition. From 1794, it starts to interpret its works
as a public. If it composes its first symphony in 1800, the
genius of Beethoven shows through with the writing of its first
chiefs of works about 1802. Pushing back the established musical
uses, illuminated by friendships in love, threatened by deafness
it is thrown in the composition of œuvres imposing: exceptional
sonatas for pianos, symphonies 2 to 8. During ten years, all
that writes Beethoven is only pure happiness, but since 1813,
tired of Vienna and its intrigues, patient, haunted by the idea
of death, overpowered by its deafness (which will become total
in 1819) it sinks in despair and silence. It owes its rebirth
with the writing of its imposing "Missa Solemnis"
and finds its faith passed in its art to write some of the most
imposing works of the music. 26 March 1827, sick, he dies in
Vienna. Ludwig Van Beethoven bequeaths to humanity an immense
work which knows since a permanent glory.