BEETHOVEN BIOGRAPHY

Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770 in the

city of Bonn, west of Germany. There, during his first
years of life, he was exposed to a demanding
musical training by a father obsessed with making
him "the new Mozart."

Such questionable ambition, together with a no less

dangerous character linked to alcoholism, had a
direct impact on the personal, academic and social
life of the young Beethoven, not only making him an
introverted and fearful child, but a bad student too
tired to attend the lessons from school after
spending the night rehearsing at the piano.

In any case, without justifying the means that polished his talent, the reality is that at just
seven years old, Beethoven was already able to give piano recitals that left the
audience speechless; among them, Christian Gottlob Neefe himself, who was so
impressed with the ability of little Beethoven, that he was interested in guiding, enriching
and perfecting his training. Thus, at 10 he left school to devote himself entirely to music
and at 16, Bonn's nobility financed him a trip to Vienna to learn from the best, including
Mozart himself; but shortly after arriving in the music capital, her mother fell seriously ill
and had to return to Bonn.
(*) The tradition says that Beethoven had the opportunity to play the piano in a recital in
which Mozart was present and left him so fascinated that he would say: "This young
man will make the world speak."
After the death of his mother, his father fell into a deep depression that forced
Beethoven to take care of his little brothers playing the viola and giving piano lessons.
Luckily for him, he did not have to extend this type of work for a long time, since his
extraordinary talent was increasingly known and there were several people interested in
financing his complete dedication to music. And so he spent more than 10 years in
Vienna as an economically independent musician until, after the age of 30, he began to
experience serious hearing problems. Beethoven tried different procedures to cure his
eminent deafness, but nothing worked. Such was his helplessness, that he valued
suicide, but he knew that he still had a lot of music to give to the world and continued
composing until his death at age 56, leaving us with a musical legacy of nine
symphonies, 32 sonatas, two masses and an opera that They consecrate him as one of
the best musicians of all time.