Chill With Beethoven

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Cat No: 8556790

Release Date: 12 January 2005

Label: Naxos - Bonuses (30%) / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 730099679022

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: Chill with Beethoven

Description
Chill with BeethovenBeethoven is often portrayed as an angry, wild and passionate figure whose music exemplifies the antithesisof all things calm, peaceful and contemplative. Chill with Beethoven is a collection of some of the mostbeautiful, wistful and romantic melodies ever penned by a classical composer. Beethoven was a giant in thehistory of western classical music, and his compositions (including nine symphonies, five piano concertos,ten violin sonatas, thirty-two piano sonatas) are often seen as the bridge between the restrained delicatemusic of the Classical period he inherited from Haydn and Mozart to the stormy Romantic music that was tofollow with composers such as Brahms, Bruckner and Schumann.Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn in December, 1770, the son of Johann van Beethoven, a singer inthe service of the Archbishop of Cologne, and the grandson of Ludwig van Beethoven, Kapellmeister to thesame patron, who died in 1773, but whose distinguished musical reputation lived on in the family. In 1789,his mother now dead, young Ludwig van Beethoven took over responsibility for the family and his twoyounger brothers.At home Beethoven had received erratic practical training in music, but was able to follow a more consistentcourse of study from 1781 with the court organist Christian Gottlob Neefe. In 1784 he entered the service ofthe Archbishop as deputy court organist and playing the viola in the court orchestra, as occasion demanded.In 1788 he was sent to Vienna, where he hoped to study with Mozart, but was recalled to Bonn by news ofhis mother's final illness. In 1792 he went to Vienna once more, this time to study with Haydn. He remainedthere for the rest of his life.Beethoven established himself in Vienna at first as a virtuoso keyboard-player, his virtuosity includingimprovisation at the keyboard and composition. He was helped by lessons from Albrechtsberger incounterpoint and from the Court Composer Salieri in vocal and dramatic setting. His lessons from Haydnproved less satisfactory. Armed with suitable introductions, he was able to make influential friends among thearistocracy and it was with their support that he continued his career in Vienna, even when increasingdeafness made performance at first difficult and eventually impossible.It is a tribute to the discernment of Beethoven's patrons that they perceived his genius, in spite of hiswildness and increasing eccentricities of character partially due to the frustrations of his deafness. In Vienna,Beethoven lived through turbulent times. He died in March 1827, his death the occasion for public mourningin Vienna at the passing of a long familiar figure whose like the city was not to see again.
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