1. In the biography of Who's Who, Beethoven was a great medieval musician who grew up in a bad environment, but was very strong, with tenacious perseverance, unremitting motivation and his firm pursuit and love for the truth of music. It can be said that Beethoven experienced ups and downs in his life and was deaf in his later years, which is undoubtedly the greatest sorrow and misfortune for a musician, but with his love and persistence in music, he finally overcame his fate and became a great music composer.

2. Beethoven composed nine symphonies, two mass pieces, and numerous overtures, concertos, sonatas and string quartets, which deeply influenced the styles of later composers, such as the symphonies Hero, Destiny, Pastoral, and Ode to Joy, the last movement of the ninth symphony; Overture Egmont; Piano Concerto No.5 "The Emperor"; Sonata of Sorrow, Sonata of Moonlight, etc. are household names. He left a precious fortune for mankind and had a great influence on the development of world music, so he was honored as "Le Sheng" by the world.

3. The museum of Beethoven's former residence is adjacent to the market square in the center of the old city of Bonn, where Beethoven lived from 177 until he moved to Vienna in 1792. Here are the pianos that Beethoven once played, the organ keyboards that he played in his teens, the trumpet-shaped hearing AIDS that he used in his later years, and a large number of Beethoven's music manuscripts.

Extended information:

1. Beethoven's main works:

Beethoven's life creation has a wide range of genres and a large number. In the field of instrumental music, it includes 9 symphonies, 11 orchestral music and drama scores, 5 piano concertos, 1 violin concerto, 16 string quartets and other forms of duets, 32 piano sonatas, violins, cello sonatas and variations. In the field of vocal music, it involves opera, oratorio, mass, cantata, chorus fantasia and a large number of artistic songs. The representative works in the field of vocal music include opera Federio, Mass in D major, vocal divertimento to a distant lover and so on.

2. The creative characteristics of Beethoven's works:

Beethoven's life has experienced drastic changes in European society before and after the French Revolution, and his works are the product of the combination of times and personality. He greatly expanded the ideological content of symphonic music, making it a genre that directly reflects social changes, and the performance range of piano has also been greatly enhanced.

The expansion of content leads to the innovation of expression techniques: he breaks through the traditional formal structure, motivational theme application and dynamic music development, which makes music have extraordinary momentum and strength; The sound change system based on the functional system has become the characteristic of his harmony style; Flexible dissonance and large-scale rhythm contrast and strength contrast play an important role in depicting contradictions and conflicts and dramatic development. In addition, the application of counterpoint, the combination of band acoustics and the writing of piano music have distinct characteristics.

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