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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
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.
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