Beethoven and other German composers

No country in the world has given mankind many great composers, like Germany. Traditional ideas about the Germans, as the most rational and pedantic people, collapsing from such a wealth of musical talent (but poetry too). The German composers Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Schubert, Harp, Wagner – this is not a complete list of talented musicians who created an incredible amount of musical masterpieces of various genres.

German composers Johann Sebastian Bach and Johann Georg Handel, both born in 1685, laid the foundations of classical music and brought Germany to the “front” of the music world, where previously dominated by the Italians. Brilliant Bach, not fully understood and recognized by contemporaries, laid the strong Foundation on which later increased the whole music classicism.

The Great classical composers.Haydn, W. A. Mozart and Beethoven are the clearest representatives of the Viennese classical school – music styles that emerged in the late XVIII-early XIX centuries. The name “Viennese classics" implies participation of Austrian composers as Haydn and Mozart. A little later they were joined by Ludwig van Beethoven-German composer (the history of these neighbouring States is inextricably linked with each other).

The German, who died in poverty and loneliness, found the age-old glory for himself and his country. The German romantic composers (Schumann, Schubert, Brahms, and others), as well as contemporary German composers such as Paul Hindemith, Richard Strauss, after his work is far from classicism, however, recognize the huge influence of Beethoven on the work of any of them.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven was born in Bonn in 1770 into the family of a poor drinker and musician. Despite the addiction, the father was able to see the talent of his older son, and he began to teach him music. He wanted to make Ludwig the second of Mozart (father of Mozart was successfully demonstrated to the public of their “miracle baby” after 6 years). Despite the brutal treatment of his father, forcing his son to do all day, Beethoven was passionately fond of music, for nine years he even "outgrown" it in performance, and at eleven he became assistant court organist.

At the age of 22, Beethoven left Bonn and went to Vienna where he took lessons from the Maestro Haydn. In the Austrian capital, the former at the time the acknowledged center of world musical life, Beethoven quickly won a reputation as a piano virtuoso. But the composer's works, is filled with violent emotions and drama, was not always appreciated by the Viennese public. Beethoven, as man, was not too “convenient” for others – he could be abrupt and rough, unbridled fun, it is dark and gloomy. These qualities contributed to the success of the Beethoven society, he was considered a talented weirdo.

The tragedy of the life of Beethoven-deafness. The disease making his life even more isolated and lonely. Painful for the composer was to create his brilliant creations and never hear them. Deafness did not break the strong spirit of the master, he continued to do. Being completely deaf, Beethoven himself conducted his brilliant 9 Symphony with the famous ‘Ode to joy” in the words of Schiller. The power and optimism of this music, especially given the tragic circumstances of the composer's life, is still dazzling.

Since 1985, Beethoven's "Ode to joy” in the treatment of Herbert von Karajan has been recognized as the official anthem of the European Union. Romain Rolland wrote about this music: “the Whole humanity in his hands to the sky… rushes to meet joy and presses it to his chest” .