1. Joel Aldrich Music 1010 Spring 2014

2.  1770, December 16 - Born  1774-1776 – Father started teaching him using rigorous and brutal methods  1787 - Beethoven went to Vienna to audition to study for Mozart.  Mozart said “Keep your eyes on him; some day he will give the world something to talk about.”  Mother became ill shortly after arriving, so he returned home.

3.  1790 – Composed Cantana on the death of Emperor Joseph II in honor of the Emperor’s death. Considered his first masterpiece.  1791 – Mozart passed away and Beethoven began to work with Joseph Haydn  1795 – “first” concerto in C Major  1800 – showcased Symphony No. 1 in C major in Vienna at Royal Imperial Theater.  Wrote Symphony No. 3, the Eroica Symphony, in honor of Napoleon Bonaparte.

4.  1803-1812 – “heroic” or “middle” period of Beethoven’s music.  Composed on opera, 6 symphonies, four solo concerti, five string quartets, six string sonatas, five sets of piano variations, four overtures, four trios, two sextets, and seventy-two songs.

5.  As his career pressed forward, he became deaf until the point of utter deafness – although people could not tell because his writing was more beautiful and brilliant than ever.  1824 – Missa Solemnis (considered to be one of his greates works. Also finished his ninth and final symphony.

6.  1827, March 26 – Died at the age of 56.  Autopsy reported cirrhosis of the liver, deafness, and obvious ill temper which led them to the conclusion that he had arterial disease.  10,000 people attended his funeral  One of the most celebrated musicians of all time.

7.  Beethoven liked to work on his pieces simultaneously.  After he finished Symphony No. 3, he began to work on his fifth symphony that was finished in 1808 – around the same time as his sixth.  When first performed, it was not very popular.  It became popular when there was a highly favorable review written in the “General Music Journal”

8.  0:00 - First movement Strings and woodwinds, played in fortissimo  0:06 - strings, played in piano  0:14 - Crescendo  0:18 - full orchestra, played in fortissimo strings, played in piano  0:43 - Horn, played in fortissimo  0:46 - Theme II - played in piano higher strings repeated by lower strings  0:58 - Crescendo to fortissimo  1:15 - Woodwinds and brass descending  2:49 - horns echoed by strings, played in fortissimo  2:51 - strings and woodwinds, played in piano crescendo  3:24 - violins, woodwinds, brass key change, played in fortissimo  4:08 - Theme I, full orchestra  4:41 - timpani followed by brass  5:02 - Theme II, violins and flutes  5:07 - Woodwinds and horns descending  5:52 - Coda! played in fortissimo violins and bassoon  6:17 - pianissimo, the fortissimo  7:26 - Second movement Violas and cellos  7:56 - woodwinds and strings  8:28 - clarinets rising  8:43 - violins played in pianissimo crescendo  9:44 - Theme A  10:33 - Theme B  11:44 - Theme A’  15:15 - Theme A  16:04 - Coda! Bassoon playing piano Crescendo  17:16 - theme A  18:01 - Third Movement Cellos and bass, played in pianissimo  18:10 - Repeat of melody with woodwinds and strings  18:19 - Horns played in Fortissimo  19:45 - Cellos and bass  20:00 – Theme A  20:14 – repeat A  20:30 – Theme B  20:54 - repeatB  21:13 - original melody in pianissimo  22:17 - ppp, timpani  22:28 - violin in pianissimo, crescendo

9.  www.biography.com/people/ludwig-van- beethoven-9204862?page=1 www.biography.com/people/ludwig-van- beethoven-9204862?page=1  Www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/education/beethoven. html Www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/education/beethoven. html  www.westerncultureglobal.org/beethoven.html www.westerncultureglobal.org/beethoven.html  En.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_beethoven En.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_beethoven  http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/57 8093/Symphony-No-5-in-C-Minor-Op-67 http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/57 8093/Symphony-No-5-in-C-Minor-Op-67