Talent Development Programs Essay 2022

Running head: ESSAY ON MUSIC
ESSAY ON MUSIC
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TALENT DEVELOPMET PROG ENGLISH ESSAY
ESSAY ON MUSIC
The paper looks forward to analyze in depth of how Ludwig Van Beethoven is a
maestro in work in the heroic style of music and popularizing it in the early part of the
eighteenth century. The essay will precisely discuss about how Beethoven is more than a
musician and becomes a hero in his time and continues to be a hero and a God for all the
musicians and people still walking under the sun. He becomes a hero for all the music lovers.
He not only had immense courage and had involved himself in a battle but also fought against
all the odds that life had offered him. He also had to go through all sorts of hardships to come
to have achieved this position. The paper will talk about how he transcends from an ordinary
man to a hero with his extravagant talent briefly and then it will move on to talk about his
musical style that is known as heroic style. The essay will mainly focus on two particular
scores to show how his heroic style is manifested in the course of his music and will finally
talk about how he had been influenced by other musicians.
Beethoven had to go through a huge amount of struggle though nothing could stop
him from flourishing. He had to publish the songs at such a minimal rate that the whole
would have probably taken by the song to be composed. Therefore he had no share of his
profit. A time came when he thought of quitting his musical career after the departure of his
mother. It saddened him so much that he lost all hopes but again came back with his
individualistic style. He had the ambition of teaching in a unique style hence he chose to
grow more mature at a younger age. The hardest challenge that he overcame within a glimpse
is that he continued to play and compose music even when he got deaf.
The heroic style that he started exploring was in the middle of his career. His heroic
style of composing music did not surface in the earlier stage of his career. He not only
emerged as a pioneer to have promoted the heroic style in the sphere of composing music
rather he entirely transformed the course of musical history. Beethoven was completely
surrounded by music from top to bottom. He dwelled in a state as if his heart was a series of

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ESSAY ON MUSIC
strings and nature would play them with each touch of breeze it passes by. The musicians of
the recent times are equally involved and intrigued by the sensational music he has
contributed throughout his career1. He is as much as of “rock ’n’ roll’ as film scores.
Everyone starting from the music makers of older generation to new generation is equally
attracted by his music that is almost divine to them2.
Before Beethoven emerged and flourished as a musician, music was not really
considered to be a profound form of art rather it was just a device of pastime that was way
more aesthetic and a sort of diversion from the world of reality. He had revolutionized the
entire style and the concept of music that people were used to and started a new journey of
music altogether. Therefore he refined it the way nobody had ever witnessed and he picked
up a very elegant style that can be to some extent considered to be ‘powdered wig” style. This
consisted of unpredictable rhythms, experimental harmonies which were kind of daring with
the possibility of having larger scope. A good comparison can be drawn between the
contribution of the epics of Homer to the ancient people and Beethoven’s contribution to the
modern era of music. Beethoven had been one of a kind who introduced music to be the
external manifestation of eternal struggle that exists between the unfathomable darkness and
the pure source of light. He had shown the world that music can make the journey so smooth
that can easily change the despair into triumph. He had popularized a different sort of music
that emerged as heroic.
1 Lawson, Nathaniel. "Realization of Beethoven's Heroic Style in Performance. docx."
(2019).
2 Pfau, Thomas. "Beethoven's Heroic New Path: Organic Form and its
Consequences." andererseits 4 (2015).