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Summary: Ludwig van Beethoven was one of the greatest music composers in history. He became deaf as he aged and still wrote brilliant music. Learn tips on how to read music and play this brilliant musical piece from a violin expert in this free video clip.
Jason Salmon has been playing the violin for 17 years, and has been teaching violin for seven years. He taught for the Ladsonian Foundation in New York, which offers affordable violin...read more
"This is Beethoven. The eldest son of the singer and the compel of archbishop. Elector of Cologne and grandson of archbishops compel Mister. Beethoven settled Indiana in seventeen ninety-two, where he studied with Joseph Hidon and others, quickly establishing himself as a remarkable keyboard player and original composer. By eighteen fifteen he realized he was losing his hearing and had to give up his concert award. His deafness accentuated existing eccentricities in his character and gave him a reputation as the misanthropist, but he was nevertheless patiently tolerated by a number of rich patrons and his royal pupil, the arch Duke, Rudolph. The length and complexity of Beethoven's compositions as he explored new fields in music made heavy demands n his listeners, and his words often sounded strange to the ears of his contemporaries."