. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. !? Musicians s Composers. -«^^t-^ ^ _^|^,.^^^. Beethoven, Mozart and Clara Louisa Kellogg. 1AMOUS AS a composer wasLudwig Van Beethoven, whow
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. !? Musicians s Composers. -«^^t-^ ^ _^|^,.^^^. Beethoven, Mozart and Clara Louisa Kellogg. 1AMOUS AS a composer wasLudwig Van Beethoven, whowap born at Bonn, Gerniiniy,in 1770. His musical edncjitionbegan when he was five yearsold, under the tuition of hisfather, who was a tenor singerin the chapel at Bonn. Hereceived, also, at a later period,instruction from M. Pfeiffor, andU-arned organ-playing from Der Eden. In 1787 the greatcomi)oser Mozart predicted thesuccess of Beethoven. AtVienna, in 1792, Beethoven wasthe* pupil of that other notedcomposer, Haydn, remaining withhim until the latter went toLondon. Up to this time Bee-thoven appears to have exhibitedmore genius as an extemporaryperformer than as a composerof inii^ic. Taking up bis resi-di-nce in Vienna, he composedhis first quartets. From IHUd to IS03 he was engaged in the com-po:?iti«n of his oratorio of Christ on the Mount of Olives. Theopera of Leonia was finished in 1804, and in 1805 he wrote his operaof Le(niora, known, also, as Fidelio. About this time he began
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