CLASSICAL MUSIC

Classical music is characterized by the use of instruments like the violin, base etc. Viena is the country represeting this music,here many musicians were born and also there lived some of them, like Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart.
Ludwig van Beethoven(16 december 1770-26 march 1827) was a German composer and a pianist. He was a crucial figure in the trasitional period beetween the classical and Romantic eras in western classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all times. Born in born,then he lived in the Electorate of Cologne in Germany, he moved to Viena in his early twenties and settled there, studying with Joseph Haydn and quickly gaining a reputacion as a virtuoso pianist. Bethoven hearing was gradually deteriorated, beginning in his twenties, yet he continued to compose, and to conduct and perform, even after he was completely deaf. Beethoven is acknowledged as one on the giants of classical music, occasionaly he is refferred to as one of the three Bs who epitomized that tradition. He was also a pivotal figure in the transition from 18th century musical classicism to 19th century Romanticism, and his influence on subsequent generations of composers as profound.