The Emotional Creativity Of Ludwig Van Beethoven

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surviving children of Maria’s six births besides Ludwig(Burke 32).
Ludwig began taking music lessons from his father at a very young age. By the age of five he was playing both the clavier and the violin(Solomon 16). Beethoven had few friends and spent little time playing with other children, although he did play with his brothers from time to time(Burke 33). Young Beethoven was extremely withdrawn from the world around him. “Outside of music he understood nothing of a social life.”(Solomon 20). Besides being uninterested in friends, young Ludwig was a poor student. His grasp of spelling and arithmetic was insubstantial, but he did learn Latin for the purpose of writing masses(Burke 34).
During this time in Beethoven’s life his father was obsessed with making young Ludwig a musician. Johann Beethoven “...conducted his son’s musical education in a brutal and willful manner.”(Solomon 16). Ludwig hated his father and his lessons “hung over him like a threat.”(Burke 34). ...

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Beethoven’s apartment(Solomon 17). Pfeiffer’s main connection to the Beethoven family was that he was Johann’s drinking partner(Mason http://www.altusdesign.com/beethoven/bio/essay.html). Mäuer, a cellist in Bonn at the time relates the story “...often, when Pfeiffer had been boozing with Beethoven’s father in a wine tavern until 11 or 12 o’ clock, he went home with him, where [they found] Ludwig...in bed sleeping. The father roughly shook him awake, the
boy gathered his wits and, weeping, went to the piano, where he remained, with Pfeiffer seated next to him, until morning.”(Solomon 17). Sometimes when Ludwig made mistakes his father and Pfeiffer would beat him on his ears(Mason ...

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