What Makes Beethoven

So Special?

Beethoven lived

in the time of

Napoleon, an age

in search of

heroes.

Jacques Louis David

Day 1: Heroism

Day 2: A New Vision

He envisioned a

new role for

music—with layers

of power and

punch.

Photo: Yair Haklai (CC BY-SA 3.0) http://bit.ly/16DtJ9t

Day 3: Romanticism

The Age of

Reason was

over. People

turned to

mystical and

supernatural

themes.Caspar David Friedrich

Day 4: A New Rhetoric

Beethoven did

not compose

with

aristocratic

ease, but with

bare-knuckle

toil and sweat.Beethoven Sketchbook

Day 5: Unexpected Form

His music broke the

rules and pushed

the limits, making it

harder to find

patrons.

Klaus Kammerichs: Beethon (1986)Photo: Hans Weingartz (CC BY-SA 2.0 de) http://bit.ly/1KsIoDg

Day 6: Deafness

His deafness did not

affect his ability to

compose, but it

pushed him deeper

into his own creative

world.

Carl Schloesser

Day 7: Love and Legacy

Beethoven lived with romantic loneliness and acute deafness, but he cast a monumental shadow over future generations of composers.

Joseph Karl Stieler

The Shadow of Beethoven

• Monumental

• Visionary

• Transformative

With this Free Mini-Course

• Discover why Beethoven

is the most famous

composer ever.

• Hear and identify the key

elements that make his

music striking.

• Understand the real effect

of Beethoven’s deafness.

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