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My Essay[[file:Ludwig_van_Beethoven.doc]]


Medieval Music to Renaissance... Renaissance to Baroque... Baroque to Classical... Ah ha!! We finally get to Classical to Romantic... my favorite of all. You know that music and its artists have kept pushing the limits of music till finally our time really has no limits whatsoever. But some people are ill minded to the facts that brought us here. How did we get to the point where we could swear in music? Or do atonal music? One of the answers is Beethoven.

Beethoven was a man who changed music for time to come. He transfered all the noble "everything is cheery" aspect into doom and darkness. Proven by his work of [|Symphony No. 5] (sample is just the first Movement). How marvelous this man was! He had the audacity to change what nobles once loved and enjoyed to something he actually knew, loved and felt. What a **Bold** man he was. ([|http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/eras/romantic.html)]

In the beginning of the Classical Era (ending with Beethoven) nobles everywhere "owned" composers to do their bidding. It was their royal duty to serve their master. To create and perform lovely melodies for joyous occasions. And maybe a funeral march or two. But nobody could ever stand up their "royal holyship"! It was enslavement but with benefits. Beethoven changed that. No man could hold him down. He changed the way the world viewed composers for ages and eras to come.

But sadly in his mid 20s, Beethoven had a increasing hearing loss that almost totally wiped him out. He still kept composing for many years to come, and wrote on a pad to converse with his students and his colleagues. Once during a performance Beethoven stood silent as the not even knowing whether the audience was applauding or booing. One of the string players had to turn Beethoven around to realized that he had done another wonderful job.

It shows that even deaf people can create art in this world, even though it might be a bit tedious, it still can be done.