Beethoven Ludwig van Beet

Most of the music from Beethoven's first period is similar to the music of the mature Franz Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, which was identified by a preoccupation with forms and craftsmanship, traditions of the Classical period. Beethoven's tutelage under Haydn in Vienna is probably the reason that Beethoven's First Symphony reflects Haydn's spirit and technical features (Grout & Palisca, 1988, p. 634). All four movements in Beethoven's First are standard in form; however, he still shocked his peers with his skillful arrangement of harmonies. The range of modulations (changing of keys) and harmonic connection exceeded those of his predecessors. His First is in the key of C, but Beethoven begins the piece on the dominant seventh of F major rather than the tonic, which was unacceptable to critics expecting the standard symphony to start o

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rawing on resources such as motivic development, Beethoven could spare an audience boredom from an unusually long symphony (Arnold & Fortune, 1971, p. 35). Although Beethoven was recognized across Europe as a pianist and composer, many musicians did not understand the nature of such bold treatment of musical ideas and therefore did not eagerly accept them (Grout & Palisca, 1988, p. 635). For example, when the musicians of Count von Andreas Cyrillovich Razumovsky, the Russian ambassador to Vienna, to whom Beethoven dedicated three Op. 59 string quartets, attempted to play the Quartet in F (No. 1 of the set), they thought Beethoven was playing a joke on them. Muzio Clementi, a renowned London pianist, once said to him, "Surely you do not consider these works to be music?" to which Beethoven responded, "Oh, they are not for you, but for a later age" (Grout & Palisca, p. 640). The identity crisis his deafness caused during his adult life was vital to the development of his genius as a composer and served as a motivation for the invention in his great works. Because Beethoven yearned to succeed beyond the limitations of his handicap, his music was a manifestation of this personal "progress of struggle to victory." This force wa
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