Though one would think since Beethoven was a master of composition that he would be good at math. The truth is that he did not get passed elementary school and was terrible at math. As a young musician at the age of twelve and under the wing of his teacher, C.G. Neefe, Beethoven published his first music. At the age of seventeen Beethoven took of for Vienna. This is where he was to spend the rest of his life except for the five-year period that he returned to Bonn while his mother was dying.

During the five years that Beethoven stayed in Bonn he met and impressed Franz Joseph Hyden. He returned to Vienna with Hyden, but for only one year. There was a great deal of tension and jealousy between the two. He soon began to study with other composers such as Albrechtsberger, a famous choir director and counterpoint, and with Salieri, whom was famous in Mozart’s biography. While studying Beethoven was

Around 1815 was a time when Beethoven was not coming out with new music and went into sort of a block. His personal life was distracting him from music. At the time his brother had recently died and he was fighting over custody of his nephew. According to many Beethoven did not have the “capacity of a domestic human being” as you could imagine due to his temper problems. Beethoven won custody of his nephew but they were not on good terms. His relationship with his nephew was not very good. Beethoven even forbade him to visit his own mother. At one point in time his nephew was so sick of him that he attempted to take his life. Due to the stress of the young boy and everything going on in Beethoven’s life, he often fell ill.

Beethoven was a very impatient, impulsive, and unreasonable little man. Much of this was enhanced by his deafness but he was this was by nature. He was very easily irritated and annoyed. He was very paranoid of people being disloyal to him or plotting a conspiracy against him. Though he was all of these things above he would also realize when he had been rude or had misjudged one of his friends and would write them to apologize. This attitude of his hindered his social life including his luck with the ladies. One of the few relationships that he did have with a women, around 1812, ended when she left him to marry a friend. It is not known but is suggested by many that she was his “immortal

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