beethoven biography

by borja
Ludwig van Beethoven (Bonn, Holy Roman Empire, December 16, 1770 [1] - Vienna, Austrian Empire, March 26, 1827) was a composer, conductor and pianist German. His musical legacy includes, chronologically, from the classical period until the beginning of musical Romanticism.
by borja
Considered the last great representative of Viennese classicism (after Christoph Willibald Gluck, Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), Beethoven managed to transcend the music of Romanticism, motivating influence it in a variety of musical works over nineteenth century. His art is expressed in many genres and even symphonies were the main source of his international popularity, its impact turned out to be especially significant in his works for piano and chamber music.

His output includes piano gender (32 sonatas for piano), chamber (16 string quartets, 7 trios, 10 sonatas for violin and piano), vocal (lieder and opera Fidelio), concertante (5 concerts for piano and orchestra , one for violin and orchestra) and orchestra (9 symphonies, overtures, etc.). and the cycle of nine symphonies, including the Third Symphony, also called Eroica, [2] in E ♭ major, Fifth Symphony, in C minor and the Ninth Symphony in D minor (the fourth movement is based on the Ode to Joy, written by Friedrich von Schiller in 1785).