Beethoven - by Mihailo

Mihailo has been researching Beethoven - if you don't know who that is, have a read of Mihailo's report...

Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany. His dad was a singer and Beethoven's first teacher. After a while, he started to be a traveling performer but remember he was still a boy, but he was doing this to support his family.

In his early twenties Beethoven moved to vienna and this is where he spent the rest of his life Beethoven was one of the first composers to make a living without being employed by the church or a member of the nobility at first he was know to be a brilliant pianist, but when he was around 30 he started going deaf.Even though he could no longer hear well enough to play the piano Beethoven composed some of his best music after he was deaf

Beethoven is considered to be the greatest musical genius who ever lived. He also wrote a lot of kinds of music: chamber and choral music, piano music and string quartets, and an opera.