1. Discover why Beethoven is the most famous composer ever and why people consider his music to be “monumental.” 2. Hear and identify the key elements that make Beethoven’s music striking and different. 3. Understand the real effect of Beethoven’s deafness. Know Beethoven more with this totally FREE mini course. Visit http://www.professorcarol.com/7-days-beethoven/ to sign up and learn.

1. What Makes Beethoven
So Special?

2. Beethoven lived
in the time of
Napoleon, an age
in search of
heroes.
Jacques Louis David
Day 1: Heroism

3. Day 2: A New Vision
He envisioned a
new role for
music—with layers
of power and
punch.
Photo: Yair Haklai (CC BY-SA 3.0) http://bit.ly/16DtJ9t

4. Day 3: Romanticism
The Age of
Reason was
over. People
turned to
mystical and
supernatural
themes.
Caspar David Friedrich

5. Day 4: A New Rhetoric
Beethoven did
not compose
with
aristocratic
ease, but with
bare-knuckle
toil and sweat.Beethoven Sketchbook

6. Day 5: Unexpected Form
His music broke the
rules and pushed
the limits, making it
harder to find
patrons.
Klaus Kammerichs: Beethon (1986)
Photo: Hans Weingartz (CC BY-SA 2.0 de) http://bit.ly/1KsIoDg

7. Day 6: Deafness
His deafness did not
affect his ability to
compose, but it
pushed him deeper
into his own creative
world.
Carl Schloesser

8. Day 7: Love and Legacy
Beethoven lived
with romantic
loneliness and
acute deafness,
but he cast a
monumental
shadow over future
generations of
composers.
Joseph Karl Stieler

9. The Shadow of Beethoven
• Monumental
• Visionary
• Transformative

10. With this Free Mini-Course
• Discover why Beethoven
is the most famous
composer ever.
• Hear and identify the key
elements that make his
music striking.
• Understand the real effect
of Beethoven’s deafness.

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