Like every contemporary boy, Beethoven went to start his primary school education around age of 5 or 6, (exact age is unknown). The school he attended was a secular state school in Bonn, called Tirocinium. Like often the case with geniuses, he did not make any lasting impression at school and by the age of ten his father withdrew him …
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn in a family of musicians, both his grandfather and his father made their living from music. Young Beethoven was talented, started his education in music around age six. First he practised with his father, later with family friends and other musicians from Bonn. Beethoven as a boy, despite being brilliant, was not a …
Count Waldstein, a German nobleman and patron of arts, in March of 1791 during Bonn’s Carnival season, organized an event for which he needed a ballet play. The Count was the most influential early supporter of young Beethoven. He was a lover of music and arts, an amateur pianist and composer. His initial idea was to commission a ballet music, …
When Beethoven was a child The Enlightenment was in full swing. Bonn, the home city of the Beethoven family, was chief among the German cities advancing the cultural revolution. In 1773 the Pope dissolved the Jesuits that ended their traditional monopoly in education. Accordingly, in Bonn the Jesuit school was turned into a new state school, called Academy. All over …
We all know the stories how Haydn and Mozart influenced Beethoven’s composing and taste, but before Vienna, he was a teenager in Bonn with some very important influencers in his life. This article will discover who these people were and how they formed this genius in his youth. No man is an island! – the saying goes. Parents influence is …
This article is about Beethoven’s early years in Bonn, his home city before Vienna. We will discover what compositions he made, if these were special in any way or quite the opposite. Let us find the answers to these questions! For almost two hundred years Vienna was the capital of music and all wannabes moved there to learn, shine and …