1. Ludwig Van Beethoven Bader AbdulShaheed 29.02.2012 English 12 C Mrs. Timm ( www.favorite-classical-composers.com/beethoven-biography.html)

2. Introduction Q uote Beethoven Thesis Statement

3. Birth and Childhood Date Place

4. Family Father Mother Siblings

5. Education Study Type of music

6. Travel and life Settling in Vienna Losing family

7. Life Problems Deafness Love problems

8. Death Date How Where

9. Work cited "Beethoven – Success Story." Beethoven – Success Story. Web. 03 Mar. 2012. "Fookem and Bug." Fookem and Bug. NeoEase, 5 Aug. 2007. Web. 03 Mar. 2012. "A Brief History of Beethoven." Beethoven: Background. Web. 03 Mar. 2012.. "World Biography." Ludwig Van Beethoven Biography. Web. 03 Mar. 2012..

10. Work cited "The History of Beethoven's Family - Ludwig Van Beethoven's Website - Dominique PRÉVOT." The History of Beethoven's Family. Trans. Hannah SALTER. Web. 03 Mar. 2012.. SALTER, Hannah. "Biography: Beethoven's Life - Ludwig Van Beethoven's Website - Dominique PRÉVOT." Biography: Beethoven's Life. Dec. 2001. Web. 03 Mar. 2012.. "Beethoven BiographyLife of Ludwig Van Beethoven." Beethoven Biography. 2010. Web. 03 Mar. 2012.. "How Did Beethoven Die? - Music's Great Mystery." How Did Beethoven Die? Music's Great Mystery. 2010. Web. 03 Mar. 2012..

11. Timeline 1770, December 16th- Ludwig van Beethoven is born in Bonn. He was the son of Johann van Beethoven, tenor and violinist at the court of the Elector Prince of Cologne. 1778, March 26th- Has his first public concert. 1780- Becomes Neefe’s student. 1783- Successfully replaces Neefe at the court. He also, publishes a sonata, 2 pieces of the Bossles anthology, a fugue and a rondo. 1784- composes a rondo and a piano concerto 1785-composes 3 quartets. 1787,March- leaves Bonn. On the 7th of April arrives in Vienna and meets Mozart. July 17th-returns to Bonn. His mother dies. 1789, May 14th- Enrolls at the Bonn University. 1790- Composes 2 cantatas: one when Joseph the 2nd dies and when Leopold the 2nd is made emperor. He also, composes a bale. 1791-Writes a fragment of a violin concerto. On December 5th Mozart dies 1792-Composes a string trio. Around the 2nd or 3rd of November Beethoven leaves for Vienna. He arrives there on the 10th of November. On the 18th of December his father dies. 1793- Becomes Haydn’s pupil 1794- The first symptoms of the deafness appear. Composes a trio for piano, Op.1. On the 29th of March, he holds his first concerto at The Burgtheater. 1796- February- June- goes to Nuremberg, Prague, Dresden and Berlin, where he composes the Sonata for Violoncello Op.5. He also composes the sonata for Piano Op.2. 1797-composes the Piano Sonata No.4 Op. 7 1798- Composes the Piano Sonata Op. 10 and the Violin Sonata Op.12. Neefe dies. 1799-composes Symphony No.1 and the Patetica Sonata Op. 14 and Op. 49/1 1800- Composes the String Quartet Op. 18, the Septet Op.20, the Piano Concerto Op. 37 and the Prometheus Ballet. 1801- Composes The Spring Sonata Op. 24 and the Piano Sonata Op.28. Giulietta Guicciardi becomes his pupil. 1802- 6th and 10th of October- writes the Heiligenstadt Testament. Composes the variations for Eroica, the Op. 26 and 27 sonatas and the Symphony No.2 1803- Composes the 3rd Piano Concerto Op. 37, the Kreutzer Sonata and Christus am Olberge. Works on the Eroica Symphony.