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ever written, Ludwig van Beethoven created a bridge between the 18th-
century classical period and the new beginnings of Romanticism. His
greatest breakthroughs in composition came in his instrumental work,
including his symphonies. Unlike his predecessor Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart, for whom writing music seemed to come easily, Beethoven always
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, and was baptized on
Dec. 17, 1770. (There is no record of his birth date.) His father and
grandfather worked as court musicians in Bonn. Ludwig's father, a
singer, gave him his early musical training. Although he had only
meager academic schooling, he studied piano, violin, and French horn,
and before he was 12 years old he became a court organist. Ludwig's
first important teacher of composition was Christian Gottlob Neefe. In
1787 he studied briefly with Mozart, and five years later he left Bonn
permanently and went to Vienna to study with Joseph Hay
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- He spent that summer in the country and wrote what has become known as the "Heiligenstadt Testament."
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