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Composing symphonies, sonatas, string quartets, concertos, and one opera, Beethoven shattered musical boundaries and set the stage for how musicians and listeners would think about music for the next 200 years, up to modern day.
- What impact did Beethoven have on music?
- How did Beethoven change music history?
- Why was Beethoven so important in the history of music?
What impact did Beethoven have on music?
Recognised as one of the greatest and most influential composers of the Western classical tradition, he defied the onset of deafness from the age of 28 to produce an output that encompasses 722 works, including 9 symphonies, 35 piano sonatas and 16 string quartets.
How did Beethoven change music history?
3 (Eroica) in particular expanded our idea of what is possible in a symphony and, for that matter, in music. ... He continued to revolutionize, making the orchestra bigger (Beethoven's fifth is the first symphony to use trombones) and eventually even including voices in his titanic ninth.
Why was Beethoven so important in the history of music?
Beethoven's importance in Musical History is that his work marks the end of the Classical period of classical music and the beginning of the Romantic period. ... The symphony was an invention of Classical music, developed to show off the increasingly large orchestra.
