Geniuses part 1

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN BIOGRAPHY
1770-1827

The Greatest Composition in Musical History, Beethoven’s SYMPHONY #9 “THE CHORAL” (1824) was composed when he was TOTALLY DEAF!

“HE (BEETHOVEN) WAS A TITAN WRESTLING WITH THE GODS.” – declared WAGNER.

Ludwig van Beethoven is the MOST FAMOUS and GREATEST CLASSICAL COMPOSER WHO EVER LIVED.  Beethoven is remembered for his POWERFUL, ANGRY, GENIUS MUSIC and for composing the MOST EXCITING and INTENSE MUSIC IN HISTORY, while being DEAF!  Beethoven created the “ROMANTIC” style of Classical Music (development from a motive or idea, rather than a melody).

Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, on December 16 (or 15), 1770 in a family of musicians. Beethoven’s father tried to force Beethoven to become “The New Mozart”.  Instead, he become the ONE and ONLY BEETHOVEN.

In 1787, Beethoven moved to Vienna where he studied with JOSEPH HAYDN and WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART.  He was a piano virtuoso whose playing style exploded with fire and energy.  Beethoven received patronage from the Austrian Royalty, WITHOUT sacrificing his independence and power.

In 1794 (at the age of 23), Beethoven began hearing noises, which were the first symptoms of DEAFNESS. He sought medical help, but with no success. In 1802 he was so distraught with deafness, he actually contemplated suicide, as witnessed in a Last Will and Testament he wrote called the “HEILIGENSTADT TESTAMENT.”

Beethoven’s Symphony #3 (“Eroica”), written in 1803, becomes a LANDMARK in musical history– the FIRST TRUE “ROMANTIC” symphonic work, which was originally dedicated to NAPOLEON, who Beethoven thought was fighting for democracy. When Beethoven found out that Napoleon made himself Emperor, Beethoven furiously removed the dedication and named the symphony “EROICA.”  Even while his deafness worsen, Beethoven’s music became even MORE Powerful. The BEST example of this is the FAMOUS SYMPHONY #5, with the MOST FAMOUS 4 NOTES in MUSICAL HISTORY.

In 1810, by the age of 40, Beethoven could no longer perform as a pianist and in 1822, by the age of 52, he was totally deaf.  Beethoven became even MORE temperamental and furious and channeled all his anger into his music. The Greatest Composition in Musical History, Beethoven’s SYMPHONY #9 “THE CHORAL” (1824) was composed when he was TOTALLY DEAF!

Beethoven spent his last days in a shabby room, dying of Cirrhois of the Liver and Dropsy. On his last day on March 26, 1827, at around 4 or 5 in the afternoon it was storming and there was heavy thunder. The musician Anselm Huttenbrenner says of Beethoven’s dying moments, “Beethoven opened his eyes wide; he raised his right arm, fist clenched, and stared for a few seconds with a proud and menacing gaze into the emptiness before him.”  On that day, March 26, 1827, Ludwig van Beethoven died leaving his mark of genius for all time.

Beethoven’s Greatest Works:					(Score of Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis”)
“Waldstein,” “Hammerklavier,” “Moonlight” & “Appasionata” Piano Sonatas Symphonies #1-9 “Egmont” “Fidelio” Opera Violin Concerto Piano Concertos #1-5 “Missa Solemnis” String Quartets, Op. 18, Op. 59, Op. 74, Op. 95, Op. 127, Op. 130-133, Op. 135 “Choral Fantasy” Overtures (“Egmont,” “Leonora,” “Coriolan,” “King Stephan,” “Prometheus”)

ALBERT EINSTEIN BIOGRAPHY 1879-1955 ALBERT EINSTEIN, PHYSICIST, Creator of the THEORY OF RELATIVITY (E=mc2) “At a very distant date in the future, the average mind may surpass that of Galileo” – Einstein Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany. Einstein grew up and was educated in Munich. As a child, he was considered very slow to learn to speak. By the age of 6 years old, he began learning the violin, which he continued playing throughout his life. Einstein was a genius of mathematical differential and integral calculus by the age of 16, but he was very rebellious and was thrown out of school. He finally obtained a diploma from the Cantonal School in Aarau, Switzerland and became a Swiss citizen in 1901. Einstein received his diploma at Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland and he finished his doctoral degree in Bern at age 26 and began writing his famous scientific papers. Between 1901 and 1904 Einstein published papers on physics. In 1905, Albert Einstein published his paper on the photoelectric effect and on Brownian motion and the special theory of relativity, which introduced the famous E=mc2 equation: Energy = Mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. He declared that measurements of time and space are not absolute. By 1916, Albert Einstein published the famous “The Foundations of the General Theory of Relativity”. His theory was proved in 1919 by English astronomical expeditions when they photographed an eclipse of the sun.  Einstein suddenly became the most famous scientist in the world and give him huge popularity. In 1921, Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his brilliant work in theoretical physics.  In 1933, he accepted a post at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Although he was known as a pacifist, Einstein influenced President Franklin Roosevelt to begin the Manhattan Project in 1939 for the production of an atomic bomb, using Einstein’s theories (the speed of light is a large number and is multiplied by itself, so just a small number can release a massive amount of nuclear energy.) In 1940, Einstein became an American citizen. In his lifetime, Einstein published over 300 papers and his genius creation of the famous E=mc2 led to the development of nuclear fission and the atomic bomb. In 1955, at the age of 76, Einstein suffered a rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Einstein refused surgery and died on April 18, 1955. The pathologist at Princeton Hospital took out Einstein’s brain during the autopsy, with the hopes of finding out what made this genius so brilliant.