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What did Beethoven do to make his music so emotional?

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Beethoven began his education and early career as a composer in the usual manner: under the guidance of teachers, he emulated the work of acknowledged masters like Mozart and Haydn. read more

So the first means through which Beethoven gave his music such breadth, depth, and power of emotion was by being meticulous. We see this in the surviving artifacts of his creative process: he was a scribbler, a note-taker, and a pencil-chewer, if you will. read more

For one thing, he was more emotional himself. This made his music emotional. Beethoven’s father was abusive, forcing him to practice all the time to become a second Mozart. This is believed to be the reason that Beethoven became a very emotional (he could become really bad tempered sometimes) person, and that made his music so emotional and unique. read more

Beethoven is also known for his use of motifs, and I am convinced the way he uses them has an emotional impact. The use of musical motifs was something familiar to the Classical composers (and indeed the Baroque composers), but Beethoven will often take a small musical cell, and use it almost obsessively over and over again in different guises, to sometimes almost hypnotic effect. read more

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