BEETHOVEN AN IDOL

For me, he was the greatest musician ever lived. Leonard Bernstein, who was a 20th

century musician, thought just like I did and took Beethoven as an idol for his music.

In this essay I will try to show the similarities between these two musicians.

Beethoven was born in Bonn, in 1770. He gave his first piano concert at the age of

seven. He stayed in Bonn for long years. The first time he went to Vienna he met

Mozart. After their meeting Mozart announced him as his student. But Beethoven was

officially Haydn's student. Because he thought that Haydn could not discover his

talent, he started to take lessons from Schenk and Salieri in private.

up with Beethoven’s 5th symphony. “The floor of the television studio had been

ever alive. He died on 3 February 1959. It had been 132 years after Beethoven’s death

By 1800 he started going deaf. And by the time he finished his most famous work the

musicians stand on the lines of music representing their parts to illustrate, visually as

Some topics in this essay:
Television Beethoven’s, Bonaparte Napoleon, Leonard Bernstein, Bonn Vienna, Schenk Salieri, Beethoven/Bernstein Festival, York Philharmonic, West Story, Free Kaddish, Revolution Beethoven, leonard bernstein, 9th symphony, joy life, 20th century,