2007-07-07 14:16:26 by Crazyguy Q: (5 years, 3 months, 2 weeks, 1 day ago.)

A: Because it's complex while being beautiful. So it is intellectually and emotionally satisfying. Because the themes are strong and heart wrenching without being maudlin. Because he knows how to write a catchy theme, too: the Fifth Symphony's ba-ba-ba-bum are omnipresent. Listen to Piano Sonata No. 8 In C Minor, Op. 13 'Pathetique': II. Adagio cantabile for why he has lasted. Delicate, beautiful. There's a reason they call it CLASSICAL -- it lasts! (5 years, 3 months, 2 weeks, 1 day, and 14 hours ago.)

2010-07-11 10:01:06 Q: Discuss the importance of Beethoven. Symphony No.5 in C minor tell me why this symphony radically departs from the symphonies of Haydn and Mozart (2 years, 1 week, and 4 hours ago.)

A: Sorry, I always hate doing homework. (2 years, 1 week, and 14 hours ago.)

2007-09-20 08:35:29 by Kyle J Q: Was it his brilliance of Musical Intelligence? How did the vibrations reach his primary auditory cortex of his brain? What was the medium of longitudinal waves? (5 years, 3 weeks, 3 days, and 6 hours ago.)

A: It wasn't until his mid to late life that he lost his hearing. All of his training occurred while he could still hear. Beethoven had a very good idea of what most notes and intervals sound like. Any musician develops this to a point over time. I am nowhere near the class of Beethoven's talent and ability, but even I am capable of composing with nothing more than a pencil and a piece of paper. I just know what certain intervals and chords are supposed to sound like. His deafness was not sudden, either. It was a gradual process that I imagine must have been extremely frustrating and distressing to a musician. There are dozens of stories of him cutting the legs off his pianos so he could lay his head next to it on the floor and perceive some level of audio vibrations. I also suspect he heard exactly what he was aiming for. If you've ever had a song stuck in your head, you're very familiar with how realistic it can sound. I think that with his previous training, he was able to "hear" exactly what he was writing. What really intrigues me is what he really "heard". What if what he wrote on paper was only a shadow of what his brain perceived? We will probably never know the sheer level of Beethoven's genius. (5 years, 3 weeks, 3 days, and 14 hours ago.)

2008-01-07 18:16:57 by Katherine f Q: -Is a part of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. -The symphony was permiered in Vienna on the 7th of May rehearsal. -Ode to Joy is written for orchestra, 4voices and chorus. (4 years, 8 months, 3 weeks, 5 days, and 19 hours ago.)

A: It's the European Union's national anthem. (4 years, 8 months, 3 weeks, 5 days, and 13 hours ago.)

2009-10-19 21:49:54 by You Q: Im finishing up my report on him and i want to add how he helped the music we hear today and how he influenced the world of music back then. oh and i think i can put how he used vibrations to feel his music and how he created hearing aids to at least help him 'feel' his music... is that a good idea?? I dont want you guys to do my homework for me i just need some ideas and i'll do the rest :] (2 years, 9 months, 2 weeks, 5 days, and 17 hours ago.)

A: Beethoven was perhaps the most influential composer ever. He more or less single-handedly changed the course of music from the classical period to the romantic, as someone else pointed out. But he also changed the role of the composer and the compositions he created. Prior to Beethoven, composers were more like craftsmen than our modern notion of artist. They were paid employees whose role was to keep cranking out compositions, like a carpenter cranking out furniture. Sometimes you'd get a guy who was a true genius, like a Mozart or Bach, who could crank out masterpieces along the way, but that wasn't their considered their job, to produce masterpieces. Mozart lamented he was paid "too much for what I do, too little for what I could do". Beethoven was the first composer who really made a career of being a genius, writing what he wanted when he wanted, and deliberately producing masterworks for all time, rather than utilitarian pieces for the next occasion on the calendar. Just look at symphonies: Haydn wrote over 100; Mozart in his short life wrote over 40. Beethoven only wrote 9, but each one is a separate, individual masterpiece. That's a *very* big shift. And it's the pattern that applied from Beethoven onward. (2 years, 9 months, 2 weeks, 5 days, and 14 hours ago.)

2009-04-06 20:12:26 by Jemimah Y Q: I am struggling with this question. Is it just his ability, or is it from his dad? (3 years, 4 months, 2 weeks, 5 days, and 18 hours ago.)

A: As always, a bit of both. Beethoven's father was a musician, and naturally Ludwig took lessons, and showed some uncommon ability at an early age. With the phenomenon of Mozart still fresh in people's mind at the time, Papa thought he could have the same sort of success with HIS boy. Except he was a little more, shall we say, forceful about it. But despite his father's best efforts, LVB became an excellent musician anyway. Contrary to popular belief, LVB's deafness did not have anything to do with the way his papa treated him. He became deaf when he was much older. Glinzek (3 years, 4 months, 2 weeks, 5 days, and 14 hours ago.)

2012-01-22 17:51:43 Q: (4 months, 6 days, and 20 hours ago.)

A: Sniff, sniff, sniff!! HOMEWORK! DO IT YOURSELF! (4 months, 6 days, and 13 hours ago.)

2009-03-08 14:32:59 by STEELERS ROCK BABY! Q: WE are making a vid for youtube and we need to no if Windows Media Sample Music\Beethovens music is copyrighted?? (3 years, 5 months, 2 weeks, 6 days, and 23 hours ago.)

A: The composition of composers who are past the dates of copyright, are now public domain. HOWEVER - editions of printed music, and PERFORMANCES are copyrighted. You may NOT use this music without [permission and a fee. It is possible to obtain a *mechanical license* - you need to check with a place like Harry Fox. (3 years, 5 months, 3 weeks, and 13 hours ago.)

2009-09-13 17:55:03 by Kisa Q: (2 years, 10 months, 3 weeks, 6 days, and 21 hours ago.)

A: He composed music for the deaf. (2 years, 10 months, 3 weeks, 6 days, and 14 hours ago.)

2011-03-15 14:43:37 by jake Q: If Beethoven was in his prime in today's music era, and raised up in today's musical environment, what genre of music composition will he master in? Why? This question is for mostly those that know Beethoven's history and Musical Nurture, and musical history/influence. But anyone can give their opinion? :) (1 year, 3 months, 1 week, 4 days, and 23 hours ago.)

A: Beethoven was a contemporary composer whose works, by the 'middle' phase of his career, were being less and less understood and consumed. If he could assess how current society is generally one hundred years behind its classical music front, i.e. retro-behind the times to the extreme about 20h century and contemporary music, he might just roll over and go right back to the long sleep, having already dealt with heavy rejection for half a lifetime once before, and that in a much more receptive atmosphere than our present time. Or, he would be a living contemporary composer whose music was generally not appreciated or performed, except by a very few cognoscenti outside of academe, and only a few more within. The general public would barely be aware of him until his works were 'discovered' by another generation long after his death. He would be able to read and 'hear' scores to see what is current, but would have no idea of the timbre of contemporary instruments, and would remain near entirely clueless as to the sound of electronica (...since last we learned he would still be stone deaf.) Or he might continue to compose as he did, to a general reaction of 'why bother to compose more Beethoven?' (Do we need more Beethoven, Mendelssohn, etc?) because there is already a great body of that music and it is of the past, and because music has changed that much.... No resurrected Classical composer would ever come up with the interminably long and boring pedal point bass, i.e. the virtually non-existent bass-line, which is all of Penderecki. Best regards. (1 year, 3 months, 1 week, 5 days, and 13 hours ago.)