The typical piano of 1790s, say, 3, in Vienna was a fairly light instrument, and it was very well suited to the kind of pianism that were most conventional in Vienna at that time. Beethoven changed the whole style of playing. He wanted bigger pianos,...
Vienna at that time was a marvelous place for young musicians to go to. It has always been a city of pleasure or frivolity right back to the middle ages. The city was the most crowded city in Europe at the time. It had a population of probably around...
Beethoven's mother died of consumption. The inscription says that she was such a good, kind mother to me and indeed my best friend. His father became more and more alcholic till it finally became the case that, Beethoven had to ask for his father's s...
He was baptized on the 17th of December, 1770 and was probably born the day before. He came from a musical family. His father was a court tenor, His grandfather was a kapellmeister, the top job. But while his grandfather was a great musician, his fat...
When Beethoven died, the weather even sort of noted the event. There was a rare thunderstorm and snowstorm and there was a crash of lightning and thunder and... Beethoven opened his eyes and sort of raised up his fist and the Viennese look it as a po...
