Ludwig van Beethoven is considered as many to be the greatest musicians of all time. He was a German composer who lived from 1770-1827. Beethoven composed an incredibly massive number of pieces. His kinds of compositions included: piano music, an opera, nine symphonies, songs, two masses, string quartets, and other kinds of chamber music. Beethoven’s life began where he was born in Bonn. He did not have an easy childhood. His father had a …showed first 75 words of 488 total…

…showed last 75 words of 488 total…problems with his hearing. Being a musician his hearing loss was for the most part the greatest battle he had to fight. Parts of his musical career were hurt by the hearing loss, but he went on to compose some of his most famous pieces after the hearing loss was well set in. Beethoven was a revolutionary musician, and he changed the boundaries of what humans can do if they set their minds to it.