Beethoven's talent was recognized at a very early age, and by 1778 he was studying the organ and viola in addition to the piano. His most important teacher in Bonn was Christian Gottlob Neefe,[5] who was the Court's Organist. Neefe helped Beethoven publish his first composition: a set of keyboard variations...
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Neefe helped Beethoven publish his first composition: a set of keyboard variations. A portrait of the thirteen-year-old Beethoven by an unknown Bonn master The young Beethoven's talent was spotted in Bonn by Count Ferdinand Ernst Gabriel von Waldstein, who became one of his early patrons and, in 1787, enabled him to travel to Vienna for the first time, in hopes of studying with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...
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Beethoven This, combined with lucrative publishing arrangements, allowed him to live relatively well. He knew of the benefits of aristocratic support, however; throughout his career, he cultivated a romantic, moody image with the upper class and leveraged this persona to achieve a social status equal to the Viennese nobility...	3 / 597
beethoven Although his first published examples of concertos and trios and the first two symphonies are beneath the masterpieces of Mozart and Haydn, the piano sonatas bear an unmistakably Beethovian stamp: grandiose in scope and length, and innovative in their range of expression...	2 / 379
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ludwig van beethoven But some of his other early pieces also show his own personal style. He built on the principles of sonata form and motivic development that he had inherited from Haydn and Mozart, but greatly extended them, writing longer and more ambitious movements...	2 / 402