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  • Essay / The Music of Beethoven - 1725

    The transition of music from classicism to romanticism could not have happened simply without the many contributions made by Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most influential German composers and pianists of all the time. And the music during his lifetime acted almost as if it were simultaneously booming and then revolutionized by the hands of Beethoven as he absorbed the classical style directly from many famous musicians such as Mozart and Haydn and then served his audiences with a wide variety of music styles that no one could have ever imagined. And yet, in his music, people found unique expressive musical ideas that no other ancient composer had tried to convey, and perhaps this is due to the difficult challenges he faced almost all his life, since his adolescence. However, Beethoven always communicates with music almost like a friend, with whom he could really talk and tell true stories, feelings and hopes. And as we know, as Beethoven did not go deaf immediately, so he had time to revise and reevaluate the direction and purpose of his remaining career and life. And from the large number of compositions that were written after Beethoven became deaf, we can certainly believe that he had many more musical ideas and concepts that he wanted to show people, which made him ultimately placed in one of the highest positions in the world. Classical music era as well as one of the most influential composers of the Romantic period musicians. During the Classical period, Europe experienced many changes in architecture, literature, and the arts due to the impact of the Classical Antiquity movement. And we can also see it in Beethoven's early works, where he demonstrates the typical...... middle of paper ......iting compositions that interest the public.Works citedFirst edition. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1862-1890, http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:IMSLPDisclaimerAccept/46101Jones, David Wyn. Beethoven: Pastoral Symphony: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 32-4 Kallendorf, Craig. A Companion to the Classical Tradition: Blackwell Publishing, 2007, 57-8Köhler, Louis. Sonata for pianoforte G: Leipzig: CF Peters, 1910, http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/27752Köhler, Louis. Sonata for pianoforte G: Leipzig: CF Peters, 1910, http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:IMSLPDisclaimerAccept/51718Schindler, Anton Felix. BEETHOVEN AS I KNEW IT: Faber and Faber Limited, 1966, 78-9Scott, Marion M. The BEETHOVEN Master Musicians Series: JM DENT & SONS LTD, 1974, 132-34Suchet, John. The user-friendly guide to Beethoven: Hodder Education, 2006, 224-25