Great people: Ludwig van Beethoven.

Ludwig van Beethoven was born on December 1, 1770, in Bonn, Westphalia. He was the son of Johan van Beethoven and Maria Magdalena Keverich.

Since childhood future composer played different musical instruments, including piano and violin.

Beethoven studied and worked in Vienna. During this time he wrote famous classical music compositions. "Fur Elise",  Moonlight Sonata, and Symphony No. 5 became very popular in music. Many of Ludwig van Beethoven's works were played on different musical instruments.

Composer taught other people, too. Beethoven died on March 26, 1827, in Vienna, Austrian Empire.

Famous people and their quotes. Part twenty two.

                                            Ludwig van Beethoven.

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“Recommend to your children virtues that alone can make them happy. Not gold.”

“Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.”

“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life.”

“To play without passion is inexcusable!”

“Don't only practice your art, but force your way into it's secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”

“Love demands all and has a right to all.”

“Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart and cannot make good soup.”

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Romanticism.

Romanticism was popular in the world from XVIII until XIX centuries. This type of art extend in such things as painting, literature, and music.

Also Romanticism appeared in Industtrial Revolution, when there were trains,factory machines, photography, and human values.

Painting during this period had something in common with Gothic. Example, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich.

In Romantic literature poetry was popular. Pepresentatives: Alexander Pushkin, Adam Mickiewicz, Gord Byron. Now many works of this writers are studied in schools by students.

Music in that period emphasized the inner world. Many classic music was written during that time. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn, Frederic Chopin.

Romanticism has mixed parts of previous arts, including Classicism, Gothic, and Renaissance. This suggests that humanity remembers its own past.

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