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AGE 14 - 15 [1785]

Compiled by Gary D. Evans

Last Updated: March 25, 2019 6:52 PM


Preteen Years: 1785 (age 14-15)

Beethoven was offered lessons by the Bonn Court's Organist, Christian Gottlob Neefe. One year later (1781), Beethoven became an unpaid assistant organist. He was provided with a salary this year having applied for that position arguing that his father was no longer able to support his family, (given his chronic alcoholism).

"A new sense of his inner worth... Fischer reported that Beethoven 'now believed himself to be the equal of his father in music.' " [Beethoven, 1779 - Solomon, ppg 25-26]

The year before, 1783, Neefe helped Beethoven write his first published work, Variations on a March by Dressler, WoO 63. In addition, his first three piano sonatas were published that year - dedicated to the Elector Maximilian Friedrich (1708-1784), who, noting Beethoven's talent, encouraged and supported his musical education. Maximilian Frederich was succeeded by Maximilian Francis, who extended support for the arts and for education as an adherent of Enlightenment philosophy, under which Beethoven thrived.

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WORKS CREATED

op 19: Piano Conc.#2 in Bb early sketches
WoO 36: 3 Quartets Piano & Strings (Eb, D, C) 1st modeled after Mozart's Violin Sonata in G K379(1781) pub. posthumously)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

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Composer Anton Reicha arrived in Bonn - became close friends.
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Salary now 100 Florins (per http://www.enteract.com/~rjackson)