Ludwig Van Beethoven's Struggles

   As many people know, Ludwig Van Beethoven was one of the most talented, famous, influent and successful musicians of the classic style. Beethoven gave many contributions to the classic music, including beautiful songs, sonatas, concerts, string quarto and much more. However, something only few people know about is how much he had to struggle and suffer before he managed to achieve such memorable goals and be immortalized in the history of music.

   Beethoven came from a medium-high class family in Germany, but even though he is from a family with such nice condition and status, his life was sort of troublesome. He spent his childhood living with his parents and his two younger brothers, but the problem was that his parents always fought over his father serious drinking problems. The drinking problems of Beethoven’s father were so serious that sometimes he had to steal some of his father’s salary to prevent his spending all of it in alcohol.

   By the age of nine, Beethoven started playing the piano and slowly began to develop his genius as he already started showing a good amount of talent in music. Later, his mother died from sickness, and he would graduate in music and move so that he could stsrt his career.

   Beethoven became a real idol in the classic music, but as he kept proceeding in his career and getting his genius to be recognized by the world, he also faced many problems. Unfortunately, Beethoven started getting deaf, and frightened by his coming deafness, he entered in a deep depression, which was intensified by many love failures and also by the deaf of his father.

   Sometime later, Beethoven was completely deaf; his depression came to its climax and he even considered suicide. However, his love for music and his friends helped him to overcome it, and then he started the most productive period of his life. Beethoven managed to keep composing by feeling the vibrations of the piano on the floor, but he still cried when he played his amazing songs to the audience but was unable to hear their applauses. He kept working in music until his life was taken by a disease in his sixties.

   Beethoven was a example to all humanity. He showed us that regardless of your goals and struggles you have, if you never give up and always do your best, you can achieve your dreams.