Ludwig Van Beethoven: The Entire Life Story of a Genius Composer

Great Biographies, Book 1

De: The History Hour

Narrado por: Jerry Beebe

Ludwig van Beethoven, a genius composer, one of the most recognized and influential of all composers.

Ludwig van Beethoven is a crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Classical music. Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven and by composer and conductor Christian Gottlob Neefe. Inside you’ll learn about:

• Background and early life
• Establishing his career in Vienna
• Musical maturity
• Loss of hearing
• Patronage
• Middle period
• Personal and family difficulties
• Late works
• Illness and death
• And much more!

At the age of 21 he moved to Vienna, where he began studying composition with Joseph Haydn and gained a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. He lived in Vienna until his death. By his late 20's his hearing began to deteriorate, and by the last decade of his life he was almost completely deaf. In 1811 he gave up conducting and performing in public but continued to compose; many of his most admired works come from these last 15 years of his life. Listen to the full Beethoven biography!

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Informative and enjoyable

Unfortunately the narrator mispronounces many words, including fairly common English ones. This detracts from an otherwise informative and enjoyable experience.

Best informative.

An extremely thorough biography. Discusses at length the life and times and music of Beethoven.

great one

A difficult time, a difficult life, a difficult man brilliantly woven into an enlightening and entertaining history. I bought into it all even though I understood little to none of the musicology but listening to his music has more meaning to me now and histories of the era have more perspective

Excellent

Great concise history of Joseph Stalin. There are a few mistakes and some confusing sentences.

Amazing

We love these books and they are so kid friendly! We homeschool and use them for music lessons. They are so colorful, full of great information, fun facts, timelines, a small, colorful quiz for fun, and jokes that my daughter loves.

Would not recommend

The history is accurate. However, the narrator has no idea how to pronounce German names or words. He also does not know how to pronounce the names of musical instruments and terms. This is extremely distracting!
It also makes the narrator appear ignorant.

If you like hearing Wikipedia pages read aloud...

I was even looking for something to fall asleep to, but the information was so aggravatingly inconsequential that it kept me awake. If I had a time machine I would save the money and copy and paste his wikipedia page into google translate.