Free Essays on Beethoven

  1. Ludwig Van Beethoven - Essay

    Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany in 1770. The Beethoven family served the archbishop-elector of Bonn as a court musician. Beethoven’s father was said to have been an alcoholic who beat Beethoven to make him practice. Although Beethoven suffered...

  2. Beethoven

    3. Ludwig Van Beethoven did not live an ordinary child’s life; he was forced to look after his family at a very young age and was also not an only child, but was the eldest. Caspar, on of his two younger brothers that made it into adulthood was born in 1774, followed by his youngest brother, Johann...

  3. Beethoven

    Reasons and Romanticism April 17th, 2013 Ludwig van Beethoven Of German descent, Ludwig Van Beethoven was born in 1770. It has been said that Beethoven and his music are the bridge between the Classical and the Romantic eras. Beethoven had a difficult child-hood; he was often angry and frustrated...

  4. Beethoven and Warren on Love

    Beethoven and Warren on Love 2 Contents Introduction ! 4 Purpose Statement and Hypothesis!4 Overview!4 Ludwig van Beethovenʼs Period ! 6 Political and Social Circumstances!6 Art and Music!7 Biographical Factors!8 Beethoven and Love!9 Political and Social Circumstances!10 Art and Music!11...

  5. Beethoven Sonata Op. 90

    Beethoven Sonata Op. 90 Ludwig van Beethoven, for most people, is considered on of the leading composers who represents the change from Classicism to Romanticism. His fascination lies in his never-ending experimentation with ways of using traditional structures while enhancing emotional intensity...

  6. Concert Report for Beethovens Piano Sonata 8

    played: “Romeo and Juliet: Ten Pieces for Piano, Op. 75,” composed by Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953); and Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 by Beethoven (1770-1827). The concert was performed in Pollack Hall, Schulich School of Music, McGill University. Prokofiev’s piano solo work comprises 10 piano...

  7. fdsa

    Beethoven, Hero Ludwig van Beethoven is the most famous composer in both the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Beethoven’s importance in the romantic era was remarkable. His works came up with structure of romantic symphony. He added more expression with expending structure. Also, most of romantic...

  8. Theatre Extra Credit

    next character is Beethoven, CB’s old friend who he and his friends used to bully. CB and Beethoven have a long talk about the death of Snoopy, how they aren’t friends anymore and why they stopped being friends in the first place. After the conversation comes to a close CB grabs Beethoven and kisses him...

  9. A Clockwork Orange

    “It’s a sin! It’s a sin! Using Ludwig Van Like That!”, because he knows of the treatment, and if it is a success, he will never be able to listen to Beethoven again without having a conditioned response of sickness, due to the drug. After two weeks of this, he is thrown on a stage in front of officials and...

  10. Beethovan

    stuck out to me the most is with out a doubt Ludwig van Beethoven a musical genius of his time. German born both his father and his grandfather were musicians and Ludwig was born into music. He played the piano and the violin. In Vienna Beethoven played for none other than the musical genius Mozart who...

  11. mira behn

    time of her death she had also left behind an unpublished biography of Beethoven, the Spirit Of Beethoven.[9]This craving for Beethoven, after some years, led her to Romain Rolland, in order to get more knowledge, about Beethoven. She met Rolland in Villeneuve, where he lived with his sister. In this...

  12. Choir Essay

    Choir Essay I am required to write about a person who inspires me in music. I have more than 1 person who inspires and me and they are Beethoven, Mozart, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, and Huang Ying (Chinese singer). In the following paragraphs you are going to get to know about where they are from...

  13. Beethoven’s Symphony number 5 movement 1

    even want to listen to it again and again because Beethoven composed the piece in a repetitive way in order to let the audience at the concerts easily remember it. The key of the piece was C minor, which is commonly regarded as a special key for Beethoven. Some outside information of Symphony number 5 is...

  14. Opera History

    line that encompasses a perfect 4th, but uses every interval along the way, and often does it in a stepwise, simple way (particularly in the way Beethoven does it). Treatise on Instrumentation Thisis the bible for symphony orchestra. This is the first thing that discusses fully what all the new instruments...

  15. Basic Analytical Techniques

    Basic Analytical Techniques (025:240), Fall 2009 Essay 3: Contrast and Connection in a Beethoven Romance for Violin and Orchestra The opening period of the Adagio cantabile from Beethoven Romance in F Major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 50, presents an intricate structure of contrasting phrases...

  16. Accounting Information System

    shows slated this summer in Albuquerque and Chicago, with other cities to follow. They’ll also be hosting their 4th Annual Cracker / Camper Van Beethoven Campout in Pioneertown, CA on Sept 11th, 12th and 13th, 2008 with an extensive line-up of other great acts to be announced soon. To tide fans over...

  17. Orchestra - Summary

    together. It is comprised of woodwinds, brass, percussion and strings traditionally. Beethoven has been one of the biggest influences in the classical music world. The orchestra plays many different styles of music. Beethoven has been the biggest influence on the classical style with his numerous symphonies...

  18. The History of Music

    independent melodies were woven together in perfect harmony. From there it was only a short step to the “Viennese classics” of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven in the late 18th and early 19th Century. Haydn invented the symphony and the string quartet. Mozart gave us the first modern operas in which not only...

  19. Franz Liszt

    and Adam Liszt, who both spoke German on October 22nd 1811. His father played the Piano, Violin, Cello, and Guitar, he also knew Haydn, Hummel and Beethoven personally. When Liszt was 6 he began listening to his father play piano and started showing an interest in sacred and Romani music. His father began...

  20. Concert Report

    their program. These selections were Piano Concerto No. 3 by Ludwig van Beethoven, Carmen Suite No. 1 by Georges Bizet, and finally Bacchanale by Camille Saint-Saëns. The first piece, Piano Concerto No. 3 by Ludwig van Beethoven was by far the longest piece of the evening. This piece showed off just...

  21. Mama

    achieved great works in their special performs. Famous composers: http://www.bestpianolessons.com/piano-composers/piano-composers-beethoven.html Beethoven is world’s famous piano composer and showed his genius gift in the field. He is also my favorite composer. http://numbera.com/musictheory/history/composers...

  22. A Clockwork Orange

    the non diegetic music is interrupted as something important for the character happens and our attention also disrupted. Alex, a huge admirer of Beethoven, immediately notices the piece and focuses on it, describing the music like a bird flying away. Purcell’s piece develops in the background as we go...

  23. A Difference of Worlds: Classical or Pop/Rock

    arrived! This grabs the listener’s attention and continues to hold on to it as the melody returns to the familiar. Yet it doesn’t remain there; Beethoven continues to change it up. There’s a second small climatic point at about 5:00 and lasts only ten seconds. This could represent an unexpected ‘twist’...

  24. French Horn

    the horn. They alter the pitch to a desired key. These were the horns that were used extensively by classical musicians such as Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. The more sophisticated, rounder, and mellower sound of this horn blended with that of the gentler string and wind sections of the orchestra, without...

  25. literary criticism

    emphasis on emotions also spread to the music created in that period, and can be observed in the compositions made by musicians like Weber, Beethoven, Schumann, etc. Beethoven played an important role in the transition of Western music from the classical to the Romantic age. Artist, the Creator As the Romantic...

  26. What Is the Role of Emotion in Music?

    interpretation of the music to a certain extent; a music composed with emotion would be easily interpreted by the audience. What makes Mozart and Beethoven stand out from the other famous composers is the amount of emotion they pour into their music when they compose it, and hence when we listen to the...

  27. Letter to Parents

    schedule for your reference. Group M (Grade I-Mozart, Grade I-Pavarotti, Grade VI-Rizal) July 10 August 7 September 4 Group O (Grade II-Beethoven, Grade III-Felipe) July 17 August 14 September 11 Group F (Prep-Amorsolo, Prep-Luna, Grade V-Shakespeare) July 24 August 21 September...

  28. Ways to Listen Music

    is trying to say or mean. And sometimes it can ruin the piece of music by figuring out exactly what it means and destroy the purpose of music. Beethoven has been found to be the best composer of all time. No one can figure out what he is saying in his music. Still to this day it remains a mystery...

  29. Yes Yes Yes No No No

    their way, but others who are motivated in achieving their goals might find a way to use this obstacle to their advantage. For instance, although Beethoven went deaf when he was young, he never gave up on music, and today he is considered a legend in music history. In order to be a successful person...

  30. Shanghai

    6 Bacon 10 Descartes 11 Newton 12 Rousseau 12 Kant 13 Washington 14 Watt 16 Jefferson 17 Adam Smith 18 Goethe 19 Beethoven 20 Hegle 21 Robert Owen 22 Faraday 23 John brown 24 H. C. Andersen 26 Lincoln 27 Darwin 31 Pasteur 32 Einstein 35 Galileo...

  31. Language Techniques

    too much air for pointless reasons imagine if I was to die because of loss of air those bubbles could have stolen it Harry has pretty much stolen Beethoven away from me poor pussy having to deal with such a little boy little boys enjoy staring at inappropriate places e.g. boobs up skirts leashes should...

  32. Leonard Bernstein

    and I could certainly see why he had received such praise. The video ‘Bernstein at Harvard’ begins with Bernstein discussing the emotion behind a Beethoven composition. As he plays it on piano, he narrates what he feels the music is saying to him and it makes a great deal of sense. You can tell that...

  33. Schumann - Mr. and Mrs Romanticism

    unknown until the second half of the twentieth century. When one thinks of composers, names that spring to mind are heavyweights in the field: Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Mozart. While some of these composers had stereotypical female tendencies, namely emotional instability and wearing of wigs, they were...

  34. Chaminade

    she stoped in Bonn, the birth place of Ludwig von Beethoven, who was Chaminade’s idol. She saw Beethoven’s house where he grew up and learned to play the piano. She sat at the old piano in the house and thought of the piece, Andante in F by Beethoven. Chaminade was inspired and left for France. As she...

  35. Biography of Marilyn Monroe

    called Daddy; he went into the military, she modeled, they divorced in 1946. She owned 200 books (including Tolstoy, Whitman, Milton), listened to Beethoven records, studied acting at the Actors' lab in Hollywood, and took literature courses at UCLA downtown. 20th Century Fox gave her a contract but let...

  36. The Censorship of Music

    record and release undisturbed songs, we will then be headed in the right track. In every generation music has been censored and even banned, from Beethoven to Eminem and everyone in between. Let’s take it upon ourselves to stop this unnecessary censoring nonsense and put an end to it....

  37. Understanding Music

    intellectual exercise. Having mastered the gift of listening to, say, a Haydn symphony, the ear and mind should be ready to admit Mozart, then to absorb Beethoven, then Brahms. After that, the pathway to the works of later composers will be found to be less bramblestrewn than we at first imagined. Music, like...

  38. HUM 266 UOP Course/Shoptutorial

    music—such as Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto, or Handel’s Water Music. From My Humanities Kit® listen to Classical music—such as by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...

  39. HUM 266 UOP/Uophelp

    music—such as Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto, or Handel’s Water Music. From My Humanities Kit® listen to Classical music—such as by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven. Address the following aspects: Is there a difference in the size of the orchestra and the use of instruments? Comment on some of the elements...

  40. The Human Mind

    all the really great music happened from 1650 to 1930 or so. But now they are gone. You are NEVER going to get the likes of Mozart, Brahms, Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Tchaikovski, Grieg, Mousourski, Rachmaninoff, and Debussy walking around the planet again. Music has decayed down to levels of degradation...

  41. literary analysis of poem

    taking on human characteristics The line the author writes, “and now I can see him sitting in the orchestra, his head raised confidently as if Beethoven had included a part for barking dog,” (10-12) is a humorous way that the poet adopts to accept the intolerable dog. He manages to put himself to a...

  42. HUM 266 UOP COURSE/SHOPTUTORIAL

    music—such as Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto, or Handel’s Water Music. From My Humanities Kit® listen to Classical music—such as by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven. Address the following aspects: Is there a difference in the size of the orchestra and the use of instruments? Comment on some of the elements...

  43. Malcolm Gladwell Rhetorical Strategies

    the idea of plagiarism in music including the “Choir” case between the Beastie Boys’ “Pass the Mic” and Newton’s song “Choir”, the four notes of Beethoven and the “Phantom” case to show that plagiarism comes in many forms and he uses these examples to pose the question to readers about whether or not...

  44. HUM 266 UOP COURSE TUTORIAL/ UOPHELP

    music—such as Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto, or Handel’s Water Music. From My Humanities Kit® listen to Classical music—such as by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven. Address the following aspects: Is there a difference in the size of the orchestra and the use of instruments? Comment on some of the elements...

  45. Third Reich Gleichschaltung of Cultural Life

    race or style of music offended the Third Reich - for musicians survival meant please the Fuehrer or leave Germany - approved music: Bach, Beethoven, Brahms Händel… - classical heritage used to promote the proud and superiority of Germany - Hitler's favourite composer Richard Wagner - German...

  46. Music concepts

    that extended from the middle of the 18th century to the first decade of the 19th. Its major figures were Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. although it characteristics are a concern for order and balance, its most important productions are notable as much for passion and ...

  47. The Tail of Fame

    harder to succeed. Thomas Wolfe, the American novelist, had his first novel Look Homeward, Angel rejected 39 times before it was finally published. Beethoven overcame his father, who did not believe that he had any potential as a musician, to become the greatest musician in the world. And Pestalozzi, the...

  48. THE MUSIC OF HEAVEN

    worship. Balance is the key. Robert Shaw, who was America's leading choral director, said years ago, "Ninety per cent of the music written since Beethoven is not worthy of being offered in praise to God." This is too high brow an attitude. Excellence and quality are values to be considered in praising...

  49. Minor Story

    My pride drove me to pass next exam for Lin. I was running against death. Time goes so fast. Three month later, I easily performed music from Beethoven, Chopin, and Liszt. I was also working on level eight of the piano test and Lin still fighting with his disease. Both of us had a dream that we had...

  50. Comparison of the Characteristics of Baroque, Classical and 20th Century Music

    conflicting surges of elation and depression. But such conflict and contrast are under the firm control of the classical composer. Masters like Haydn and Beethoven were able to impart unity and logic to music of wide emotional range. b. Rhythm In Classical music, there is a flexibility of rhythm. A classical...

  51. Thunderstruck

    instruments changed me into a completely different person. I never experienced anything like this when I played violin or when I listened to Bach or Beethoven. Playing violin, the queen of all instruments as considered in Italy, was never the same for me again after that moment. I thought that I could not...

  52. My Life as of Now

    because I am going to miss her and Natalia so much. I don’t know how I feel about it but I wish her the best. This year I also had to put my dog Beethoven down. His age was catching up to him and he was suffering. I know it was the best thing for him, but he has been in m life everyday ever since I was...

  53. Young Goodman Brown

    Pachelbel 5. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, first movement W.A. Mozart 6. Symphony No. 5, first movement Ludwig van Beethoven 7. “Moonlight” Sonata, first movement Ludwig van Beethoven 8. “Minute” Waltz Frederic Chopin 9. “La donna e mobile” from Rigoletto Giuseppe Verdi 10. Wedding...

  54. About Dyslexia

    movie producers, artists and scientists. Many great people throughout history, have been dyslexics – Alexander Graham-Bell, Albert Einstein, Mozart, Beethoven, Picasso, Madam Curie, Whoopi Goldberg, Tom Cruise & Steven Spielberg just to name a few....

  55. HUM 266 UOP Tutorial / uophelp

    music—such as Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto, or Handel’s Water Music. From My Humanities Kit® listen to Classical music—such as by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven. Address the following aspects: Is there a difference in the size of the orchestra and the use of instruments? Comment on some of the elements...

  56. Stereotypical Acceptance and Judgement

    problem lies. It is now his job to go out of his way to make others feel comfortable, in which he does. As read in the text, “I whistle melodies from Beethoven and Vivaldi and the more popular classical composers,” (583). This will increase the comfort of others because it is a well known and respected tune...

  57. A Clockwork Orange

    likes classical music as we can see in the following quote. - “What’s all this about sin, eh? Using Ludwig van like that, he did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music” Pg. 113 - “Then I notice , in all my pain and sickness, what music it was that like crackled and boomed on the soundtrack, and...

  58. Amadeus

    us to see his film as an art work, a piece of music, a beautiful film. At the scene with Mozart playing a small piano for the penalty, the little Beethoven was with the face that is in love with Mozart’s performance and skill on playing the piano. Apparently it is the creation of director and script which...

  59. The Mozart Effect, Hard Science or Hype?

    Tomatias has found a greater and more consistent effect on spatial perception from exposure to Mozart’s music than from other composers like Bach or Beethoven. As Campbell states: Clearly, the rhythms, melodies, and high frequencies of Mozart’s music stimulate and charge the creative and motivational regions...

  60. Isadora Duncan

    repetitive music composed formerly for ballet, Duncan danced to the profound individualized instrumental music of classical composers. Such as Ludwig van Beethoven and Fryderyk Chopin. Firstly, she was criticized by this, but European audiences accepted her innovations. By 1904 Duncan was recognized enough to...