Shayla+&+Sierra's+page+on

.Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Germany in 1770 and died in 1827 at the age of 56.He was born during the **classical** period.Beethoven's father and grandfather were professional musicians, so it is no surprise that Beethoven entered the field of music, too. In fact, it had been the custom for hundreds of years for children to enter the professions of their parents. He was becoming a fine pianist and would often **improsive**, or make up, the music as he played it. As a teenager Beethoven traveled to Vienna, Austria and got to play for the great Mozart. Mozart was very impressed with the young teen talent.Ludwig Van Beethoven was born and raised in this house. Mozart'smusic writing was neat and was almost always completed in his head before he ever wrote it down. Beethoven's music writing was sloppy and he was always making corrections, as this example shows. Links, []