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=Ludwig Van Beethoven. By: Autumn Myers and Courtney Coen= = = == =//Ludwig Van Beethoven//= //Dec. 16,1770- Mar. 26,1827//

"Beethoven" was taught by his father Johann Van Beethoven. His first real music teachers was his father. Beethoven intended to study with Wolfgang Amadues Mozart, and he befriended Joseph Hadyn. The last couple years of his life he was almost deaf. Herr Neefe was one of his music teachers, she also gave him his first chance of conducting. Because of his great talent he was sent to study with Wolfgang Mozart. Sadly his mother died when he was with Wolfgang. So sadly he had to return home to Bonn with his luggage and a broken heart. But at this time of his mothers death he became friends with Count Waldstein, he offered to help many times durning Beethovens life. Waldstein introducted Beethoven to Franz Joeeph Haydn, with whom he studied for a while.The more he studied with music teachers the more his own style of music developed.



But has his fame grew bigger the clapping of his fans grew softer and soon became none. He still had fans he just couldn't hear them because of his deafness. But there would be a terrible buzz in his ears that would make them ring all day long. Could you imagine what that must of been like for Beethoven? A man at the top of his career just 30 years old and losing his hearing more and more every day. He couldn't bear to have his friends and other musicians discover his deafness so he escaped to the country where his deep love of nature was like a medicine for his wounded soul.

Resources: [|Ludwig Van Beethoven], and Famous Composers Book 1 by Carolyn Heitman.