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Ludwig van Beethoven
Title: Ludwig van Beethoven
Category: Society & Culture / People
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven was born in Bonn in Germany, his mother a singer in the service of the Elector of Köln (Cologne). His father was weak-spirited and drank excessively, but he recognized the boy's talent and was disappointed when the young Beethoven failed to emulate Mozart as a child prodigy. Nevertheless, Beethoven soon held positions as harpsichordist in the court theatre and assistant organist in the Electoral chapel, where he obtained his first …showed first 75 words of 538 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 538 total…Archduke Rudolph, delivered three years late owing to the complexities of its composition - and the Ninth Symphony. This work, whose final movement is a triumphant setting of Schiller's Ode to Joy, again broke new ground in terms of scale and introduced choral forces into the symphony for the first time. In his final years Beethoven turned once again to the string quartet. Beethoven did not live to complete sketches he had made for further works.
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