What made Beethoven so famous?
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he is like the most successful composer since mozart! go to wikipedia.org and look up Beethoven and you will find a wealth of information
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I'd nominate Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (brilliant performer, began composing at early age, left a huge volume music when he died early) or Johann Sebastian Bach (inventor or at least early practitioner of the well-tempered scales which allow transposition into any scale without getting dissonances, as well as a very productive componist). Modern music still borrows from them.
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"Moonlight Sonata" By Beethoven, my favorite piece of classical music!
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The music of the time was early jazz music. Jazz became popular in the speakeasies where alcohol was illegally served. Duke Ellington got his start working in joints that served illegal alcohol, the most famous being the Cotton Club in NYC. \nOnce prohibition was repealed, jazz became even more popular as it didn't require breaking the law to listen to it.
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Usually it's because if everybody likes a certain band and they become popular, the band's old fans die out. It's because people talk about them too much and think they know everything about them when they really dont.
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'Moonlight' Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven.
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One that comes to mind is the fact that people imagine Johann Sebastian Bach as having been successful in his time.  He was considered as an old-fashioned composer (he was still making Baroque music), his sons were much more "popular" than he was, at the time.
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beethoven had the vision that no composer had at his time. He even once said "I will seize fate by the throat!". He conquered his weakness, which was his ever-worsening deafness, by composing music that nobody had imagined before. His music is full of pain and vital energy.
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hymm is someone obsessed? thats okay i am too.  Beautiful has to be the best, but i am also a big fan of wisemen. THere is also a good one in his live concert (look out for it when you go) with a real heavy beat, something about on the floor... i dont know, but the stuff to come is amazing. oh, i remember he goes over to the piano and pounds it out. i took binoculars so i could look at him closer. his hands are so strong! pretty cool stuff here.
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That is like asking if Beethoven's music is as good as Mozart's. It would just be opinion. In my opinion, DNA is more important right now.
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I agree with Mozart and I'd add Beethoven. Both can be purchased in a multi-volume pack. I have all 9 of Beethoven's symphonies on CD's in one collection. These two would be a good beginning for your collection. Good luck and good listening!!\n\nChow!!
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Bach is the greatest composer that ever lived... his fugues and canons are among the most intricate and ornate music ever written and not only did he cover ground in musico-logical fields never before imagined, he reveloutionized western music in general by using the well-tempered 12 tone system of pitches instead of the orginal pythagorean system so well that he generated a national interest in Germany for the flavors of the new system, propelling the state of  Western music forward at least 200-300 years.
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It was written by Ludwig von Beethoven, and it's original title is Fur Elise with an umlaut on the u. \n\nyes, it is written for piano.
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It is a popular old myth. Famous as a Wagner opera.
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Beethoven(i mean the dog)
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It is very difficult making a choice, because there are so many symphonies that could go in that position.  Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony is a favourite - the only problem is that despite its name, like most of the choices above  it's not actually a symphony!  I love Honegger's Second Symphony for Strings.  Of course, Beethoven's Fifth (the ta-ta-ta dum one above).  Nielsen, Symphonia Espansiva (the 3rd).  Charles Ives' Third.  Mahler's Sixth and Ninth.  I could go on forever, so I'd better shut up.  :)
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i have been playing for almost 20 years.  i think there is something very profound about playing an instrument, especially the piano.  i think classical is very underrated (something that should be observed live).  there is a passion that comes with the piano and playing several notes as once.  \n\ni think it also brings your experience as a person.  shows yourself how to have control and discipline and that hard work actually works.  the result is amazing knowing that you work on this piece and you made that sound come from your finger tips.  each note perfects by the way you touch, and how loud or soft it resonates from the piano itself... helps everywhere (even the bedroom) to have such an art!  did i get a little carried away there?