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Beethoven
The most famous Beethoven portrait shows the composer with a red scarf, quill and music book. It hangs in the museum's permanent exhibition. A window of the room in which it is located is reflected in the portrait.
In the place where Ludwig van Beethoven was born, he is still at his most alive. Discover new or little known facts about the famous composer.
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"Hello Beethoven"
The interactive encounter with Beethoven was created for children aged 10 to 13. The website exists in five languages: German, English, French, Spanish and Chinese. Beethoven's life can be focused through various topics. Music and spoken original quotes frame Beethoven's thrillingly narrated life history. Original images of letters, sheet music and other documents are waiting to be discovered. Animated illustrations invite the user to interact, to answer multiple choice questions or to play games of didactic value.
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There is no easy tillgång to the biography of Ludwig van Beethhoven (1770 – 1827). Far too many clichéd ideas have clouded our image of the composer, too many legends have been created and there are too many, partly ludicrous, hypotheses and assumptions about the conditions of his life as well as too many open, apparently unanswerable questions – for example, concerning the identity of his “Immortal Beloved”. At the same time, there is a crushing amount of biographical material – the analysis of Beethoven’s letters alone is a special branch of imposing complexity – so that complaints about the difficulty of writing a Beethoven-biography are a musicological commonplace. And yet, the established external facts about his life are scarce. Beethoven was born on 16 or 17 December 1770 in stad i tyskland, as the son of a humble musician. His living conditions were of a kind that we would describe as precarious today. After initially being taught bygd his father, who tried to mould his son into a wunderki
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Ludwig van Beethoven: Life and Works Essay (Biography)
1. Early Life and Education
Beethoven was the grandson of Ludwig van Beethoven (1712-73), a musician from the town of Mechelen in the Duchy of Brabant in the Flemish region of what is now Belgium, who at the age of 21 moved to Bonn. Ludwig (he is usually referred to by his middle name) was declared of legal age in 1789, which means that he is usually said to have been born in 1770. A female relative, the widow of his grandfather's friend, portrayed him to her lodger as a child who could use a paintbrush considered a potential officer, and so on. It would not be the last time that Ludwig Beethoven was to sustain the 'myth of the infant prodigy', not least because in later life he showed a morbid touchiness about his appearance and age. Beethoven's musical talent was conspicuous at an early age, but it was not exceptional. This is a point of some importance, since the Beethoven legend tends to represent him as divinely inspired