{"id":1363,"date":"2022-08-24T12:59:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T10:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.popularbeethoven.com\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2024-03-21T15:00:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T14:00:28","slug":"at-what-age-did-beethoven-start-composing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.popularbeethoven.com\/at-what-age-did-beethoven-start-composing\/","title":{"rendered":"At what age did Beethoven start composing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn in a family of musicians, both his grandfather<\/a> and his father made their living from music. Young Beethoven was talented, started his education in music around age six. First he practised with his father<\/a>, later with family friends and other musicians from Bonn<\/a>. Beethoven as a boy, despite being brilliant, was not a child prodigy, a Wunderkind.<\/p>\n

|Related:<\/span> Was Beethoven a child prodigy, a Wunderkind<\/a><\/p>\n

Beethoven started to work on his first composition around the age of 10<\/strong>, while studying with Christian Gottlob Neefe<\/a>. His first published music was a variations, called Nine Variations on a march by Ernst Christoph Dressler for piano (C minor) WoO 63<\/em>. Dressler<\/a> was a German tenor, violinist and composer. Young Beethoven based his first published composition on his piano piece.<\/p>\n

It is not a surprise that the boy\u2019s first composition was a variation! In the 18th century variation technique was essential part of musical education.<\/p>\n

|Related:<\/span> Musical theme and variations<\/a><\/p>\n

Beethoven\u2019s first composition, the Nine Variations on a march WoO 63<\/em> was published in 1782 (or latest early 1783) by Johann Michael G\u00f6tz, in Mannheim. The boy was 11 years old at the time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn in a family of musicians, both his grandfather and his father made their living from music. Young Beethoven was talented, started his education in music around age six. First he practised with his father, later with family friends and other musicians from Bonn. Beethoven as a boy, despite being brilliant, was not a … <\/p>\n

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