AMD 2 James Murphy

For my second AMD assignment I did some reserch on Germany's most famous "Komponist", Ludwig van Beethoven. As a listener of classical music, i have always been a big admirer of Beethoven's work. Beethoven was born on the 16th of December 1770 in Bonn, Bonn is a city on the banks of the Rhine River and was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990, however it was in Vienna that Beethoven's music carrer began to take off, and he began composing. His best known compositions include 9 symphonies, 5 concertos for piano, 32 piano sonatas, and 16 string quartets. He died on 26 March 1827 at the age of 56, however his legacy has lived on, and is commonly reguarded in not only Germany but the rest of the world as being one of the best and most successful composers of all time.