Ludwig van Beethoven презентация

Ludwig van Beethoven was born in December 1770 in Bonn. The exact date of birth is not established, known only to the date of Baptism - December 17. His father, Johann (Johann van Beethoven, ) was a singer, a tenor, in the court chapel, the mother of Mary Magdalene, before her marriage Keverih (Maria Magdalena Keverich, ), the court was the daughter of a chef in Koblenz, they were married in His grandfather, Ludwig ( served in the same chapel as Johann, a singer first, a bass, then conductor. He was a native of Mechelen in the Southern Netherlands, hence the prefix "van" before the name.
The father of the composer wanted to make a second son of Mozart, and began to teach the game on the harpsichord and violin. In 1778 in Cologne hosted the first performance of the boy. However, the miracle baby Beethoven did not, the father of the boy to delegate to his colleagues and friends. One taught Ludwig play the organ, the other - on the violin.

In 1780, in Bonn came organist and composer Christian Gotlob nave. He became the teacher of Beethoven. Nave immediately realized that the boy's talent. He acquainted with Ludwig's "Well- Tempered Clavier" by Bach and Handel's works, as well as with music older contemporaries: CPE Bach, Haydn and Mozart. Due to the nave, was published and Beethoven's first composition - variations on a theme of the march Dressler. Beethoven at that time was twelve years old, and he has worked as an assistant court organist.

When Beethoven was 34 years old, Napoleon abandoned the ideals of the French Revolution and declared himself emperor. So Beethoven renounced his intention to devote his Third Symphony: "This Napoleon, too, an ordinary man. Now he will trample underfoot all human rights, and become a tyrant. " In the piano works of the composer's own style is noticeable already in the early sonatas, but in a symphony maturity came to him later. According to Tchaikovsky's Third Symphony in a "revealed for the first time the whole vast, amazing power of the creative genius of Beethoven" .

Because of the deaf Beethoven rarely leaves the house, deprived of sound perception. He becomes moody, is closed. It was during these years, one by one composer creates his most famous works. During these years, Beethoven was working on his only opera "Fidelio." This opera belongs to the genre of opera, "horror and salvation." The success of "Fidelio" came only in 1814, when the opera was staged first in Vienna then in Prague, where she conducted the famous German composer, Weber, and finally in Berlin.
Juliet Gvichchardi, which the composer dedicated to Moonlight Sonata Shortly before his death, the composer gave the manuscript of "Fidelio," his friend and secretary Schindler, saying: "This child of my spirit has been made in light of more severe torment than others, and gave me the greatest grief. Therefore, it is dearer to me than all... "

His works 9 symphonies:
№ 1 (1799-1800), № 2 (1803), № 3, "Eroica» (1803-1804), № 4 (1806), № 5 (1804-1808), № 6 "Pastoral" (1808) , № 7 (1812), № 8 (1812), № 9 (1824)
11 symphonic overtures
5 concerts for piano and orchestra
6 youth sonatas for piano
32 sonatas for piano, 32 variations and 60 pieces for piano
10 sonatas for violin and piano
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Concerto for Piano, Violin and Cello and Orchestra
("Triple Concerto")
5 sonatas for cello and piano
16 string quartets
6 trio
Ballet "The Creation of Prometheus
«Opera "Fidelio»
Solemn Mass
Song cycle "to a distant lover
"Songs on poems by different poets, and folk songs

Death March 26, 1827 at the age of 57 Beethoven died. It is unknown, but U.S. researchers, examining hair and skull fragments of Ludwig van Beethoven, came to the conclusion that the great German composer, probably died of a long lead poisoning.

The funeral of Ludwig van Beethoven