He was famous for being an excellent pianist, and he composed much excellent piano music as well as played it. He composed his first three piano concertos, and his first two symphonies between the years of 1799 and 1801. In 1802 Beethoven became aware that his hearing impairment was worsening and was permanent. This upset him very much, and he became rather disheartened. However this led to a period of re-focus for Beethoven, and he went through a good creative writing stage in which his music flourished. This time became to be known as his “middle-period.” During this period he composed many, many excellent works that secured him as being the best composer of his time.
However this period also marked the end of his piano-playing days due to his loss of hearing. After the year 1812 Beethoven slowed basically to a stop. He became very depressed due to not being able to hear, because it led to him cutting himself off from most people, and this made him very sad. However the work Beethoven was able to compose during his good days established him as probably the best composer of all time. I think that Beethoven was a very interesting, complex, man. It is crazy to think that the best composer of all time was deaf.
This is pretty sad, considering that this means that much of the work that he created after 1802, he was never able to actually hear played out by an orchestra. Also, most of the work he made during this time was his best work, and Beethoven never got to hear it. I think he must have been amazing if he could have made up those songs in his head without being able to play them or test them out. Perhaps if he had not been deaf, and subsequently depressed and isolated, then he may have been able to produce more, and maybe even better, work..
The Essay on Time/Place/Period
Time:Endless visions of white surround the dissolved landscape. From the vast reaches of lucid sight, to zenith and horizon, all that can be observed is fine, talc like powder. The two worlds of sky and land appear to blend together like a photographic set, in faultless unity, as aged snow shapes the dismal world into neutral brilliance. Small particles of crystalline snow hit against his aged ...
