... was again reformed approximately around 1600 after Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation. Luther was very influential with his cultural views on prayer in your own language. This incorporated folk culture into sacred music. Johann Sebastian Bach, nicknamed the King of Polyphony and considered by many to be the greatest composer in the history of western music, spent most of his ... . Beethoven was a piano virtuoso, and a true revolutionary. He composed both sacred and secular music. Beethoven broke all the rules, and invented his own, and continued to compose even after going ...

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... 1782. Neefe helped Beethoven publish his first composition Variations on a March by Dressler in 1783. In 1784, Maximilian Francis became the new Archbishop-Elector of Cologne. He was a man of culture deeply interested in music. He transformed Bonn into a culturally vibrant city and invited several opera companies to Bonn. This is how Beethoven became familiar with the works of such composers ... his two major piano concerti, the Septet and the First Symphony in 1800, and the Moonlight Sonata in 1801. Beethoven began realizing even before 1800 that he was gradually becoming deaf. For a m...

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