Ludwig Van Beethoven He is considered to have been the most crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music， and remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all Born in Bonn， then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and a part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in present-day Germany， he moved to Vienna in his early twenties and settled there， studying with Joseph Haydn and quickly gaining a reputation as a virtuoso His hearing began to deteriorate in the late 1790s， yet he continued to compose， conduct， and perform， even after becoming completely As a child， he practiced to stop his father beating his As a man， his name is synonymous with musical mastery， and he wrote the most famous notes of music in the history of According to FlameHorse (who knows his classical music)， “(Beethoven’s) finest works are also the finest works of their kind in music history: the 9th Symphony， the 5th Piano Concerto， the Violin Concerto， the Late Quartets， and the Missa S And he achieved all this despite being completely deaf for the last 25 years of his life” I have selected the third movement of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata because most people familiar with the sonata only know the first
