The Life Of Beethoven

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"He will give the world something worth listing to". Beethoven also met Count Ferdinand Waldstein while in Vienna, who became his lifelong friend and helped him in his career. Beethoven's mother died in 1787. Five years later he left Bonn permanently and went back to Vienna to study with Joseph Haydn and later with Antonio Salieri.
Beethoven's first public appearance in Vienna was on March 29, 1795 as a soloist in one of his piano concerti it was called Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat. Soon Beetho-ven was treated with just as much royalty and nobility as Hydan and Mozart were. They paid him for his works, but they knew and liked him as a friend. Beethoven completed his first symphony in 1800 and his first set of string quartets in 1801. Beethoven was Vi-enna's first successful freelance musician.

Beginning in 1798, Beethoven was experiencing a continual humming and whis-tling in his ears that gradually grew louder and louder. Eventually the truth about this would be that he ...

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