Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
German composer and pianist, born in 1770 (baptized 17
December 1770) in Bonn, Germany and died 26 March 1827 in Vienna,
Austria.
A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and
Romantic eras in classical music. Beethoven led Viennese Classicism to
its highest development and paved the way for Romantic music.
Beethoven was the eldest son of a singer in the Kapelle of the
Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and grandson of the Archbishop's
Kapellmeister. He moved in 1792 to Vienna, where he had some lessons
from Haydn and others, quickly establishing himself as a remarkable
keyboard-player and original composer. By 1815 increasing deafness made
public performance impossible and accentuated existing eccentricities of
character, patiently tolerated by a series of rich patrons and his
royal pupil the Archduke Rudolph.
Beethoven did much to enlarge the possibilities of music and widen
the horizons of later generations of composers. To his contemporaries he
was sometimes a controversial figure, making heavy demands on listeners
both by the length and by the complexity of his writing, as he explored
new fields of music.
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