How was Beethoven's life like?!
Question: STRESSFUL
Life for any composer is stressful. The music you compose is your life, you are enslaved by it. Plus, he took custody of his nephew, Karl, because he deemed his sister an unfit mother. Beethoven tried teaching his nephew music theory, composition, and piano. Karl did learn these things, but began to rebel and use his uncle for money. This really hurt Beethoven, as it would any parent of a teenager, trying to teach the young mind his craft. Karl attempted suicide, which only made matters worse.
And you wonder why Beethoven's music is so passionate and emotional, and in some ways, darker than his contemporaries. His life outside the composing pen was not a bed of rose petals....rather roses with thorns.
Answers: STRESSFUL
Life for any composer is stressful. The music you compose is your life, you are enslaved by it. Plus, he took custody of his nephew, Karl, because he deemed his sister an unfit mother. Beethoven tried teaching his nephew music theory, composition, and piano. Karl did learn these things, but began to rebel and use his uncle for money. This really hurt Beethoven, as it would any parent of a teenager, trying to teach the young mind his craft. Karl attempted suicide, which only made matters worse.
And you wonder why Beethoven's music is so passionate and emotional, and in some ways, darker than his contemporaries. His life outside the composing pen was not a bed of rose petals....rather roses with thorns.
I think it was rich you know? Like people say Music is rich and i you what I think? I think he looked at nature and everything around in a different way.
Honestly his life was crap. He went deaf at a young age, supposedly due to the abuse he suffered when he was a young child. His father would hit him around the ears. However, he had a wonderful ability to hear the vibration and was still able to compose. He performed for many kings and queens and yet he lived and died the life of a pauper.
His life was made all too tragic because of a broken heart. He lost a woman he greatly loved and never quite recovered.
Do what? "how" do you mean "what"? GRAMMAR!!
Rent a movie called "Immortal Beloved."
Beethoven's life is a story of struggle. He had a bad childhood thanks to his father who wanted to "cash in" and tried to make him into another Mozart. It didn't work out.
As a young man he developed into a virtuoso pianist, but this was relatively short lived. As he got older, he was plagued by ill health and the uncanny knack of falling for women who were "unattainable." Then came the steady degeneration of his hearing, the most precious sense to the composer. It almost drove him to suicide. Fortunately, Beethoven had several benefactors and managed to stay solvent. This did not however, fend off other tragedy including the unfortunate episode with his nephew Karl, who almost succeeded in committing suicide.
If you are interested in the details of the great man's life - the book by Maynard Solomon is full of insight.