What Makes Beethoven
So Special?
Beethoven lived
in the time of
Napoleon, an age
in search of
heroes.
Jacques Louis David
Day 1: Heroism
Day 2: A New Vision
He envisioned a
new role for
music—with layers
of power and
punch.
Photo: Yair Haklai (CC BY-SA 3.0) http://bit.ly/16DtJ9t
Day 3: Romanticism
The Age of
Reason was
over. People
turned to
mystical and
supernatural
themes.Caspar David Friedrich
Day 4: A New Rhetoric
Beethoven did
not compose
with
aristocratic
ease, but with
bare-knuckle
toil and sweat.Beethoven Sketchbook
Day 5: Unexpected Form
His music broke the
rules and pushed
the limits, making it
harder to find
patrons.
Klaus Kammerichs: Beethon (1986)Photo: Hans Weingartz (CC BY-SA 2.0 de) http://bit.ly/1KsIoDg
Day 6: Deafness
His deafness did not
affect his ability to
compose, but it
pushed him deeper
into his own creative
world.
Carl Schloesser
Day 7: Love and Legacy
Beethoven lived with romantic loneliness and acute deafness, but he cast a monumental shadow over future generations of composers.
Joseph Karl Stieler
The Shadow of Beethoven
• Monumental
• Visionary
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• Discover why Beethoven
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elements that make his
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of Beethoven’s deafness.
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