Ludwig+Van+Beethoven

My name is Ludwig Van Beethoven, my life is all about music. Composing and playing the piano and other instruments throughout most of my life; it made a huge impact on the way I am. Both my parents supported me since a young age to learn and live music. My father taught me since a little boy to learn the piano. My big family originated from Belguim, but we also lived in Germany. My first public performance, was when my age was around 7 1/2 years old. My dear father announced that my age was 6, so people and myself always believed my age was younger than it actually was. Since from when I w﻿as young, people would recgognise me as the 'new mozart'. This was an honor, they said I was even more talented than my very own father. Day by day, I grew more and more confident about my music. I performed more and more and I even got to learn with the great Mozart. He taught me all about music, so much more than I knew. Although I was deaf, that didn't stop me from playing instruments, composing and learning new ones.

People around the world mostly know me as the person who was deaf and still composed, played and learned new instruments. My famous pieces are on the Piano, songs such as 'Fur Elise,' or the 'Sontana' pieces. Overall, I composed around 140 pieces of music, not only the piano; but so many more instruments. Click to hear some of my music!

I am entering in to this contest, under the category 'Arts'. This is because music, is art. In my eyes, art doesn't just mean the visual paintings, but it is all about architecture, or music or dances and so much more. I believe that by entering this competition, I am showing the spectators that even though I may be deaf, I'm still not giving up on my music. Even though I can't hear; I still love music, I still compose pieces. I don't give up.

I have changed the world, by not giving up on my music. It has never stopped me; my deformity. I thought one day, how I'd live without music. Then I thought, WHY? WHY do I have to stop? It's just a bump in the road. It's not going to stop me, I thought. So from that day onwards, I play the instruments and it makes me happy. My point is that having a deformity doesn't have to stop you from doing something that you love. I have changed the ways of thinking for people with deformities; you guys no longer have to do things that you don't love. Just go ahead and do what your deformity is trying to stop you from doing. If you are a sports person, but in a wheelchair; don't hesitate to go and play some wheelchair basket ball. There is a group of people who have deformities; and they are classified and compete in a sports tournaments. There is even an Olympics for disabled people; its called 'Paralympics'. From people hearing about my disability and my willingness to never stop playing, it's gotten them thinking; how could I transfer Beethoven's ideas to help other disabled people? SO that's how the disabled sports came up in the world. I am proud, I changed millions of people's views of the world.

Talking about lasting impacts I have made, they are lots of them. First of all, even after centuries, people still tend to love my music. When people listen to my pieces, they think ' Wow, how did Beethoven make it sound this way? I want to try the piano now. '. I've gotten people to start playing the piano because they want to be like me; be able to play the pieces that I have composed. Even after a couple of centuries; people still listen to my music and become inspired to make a change or a lasting impact on the world. Another lasting impact I've made is that people listen to my pieces and want to be like me! They want to be listened to all over the world, have people do assignments on them, to have a musical piece so popular and familar that even a little girl has heard it before. So they try and try to compose classical piece which can be better than my work. It's a lasting impact because this has gone on for such a long time, artist from all over the world try to compose better instrumental pieces. From my work, I made surviving in the classical music industry really hard. Last one I'm going to talk about is that I have made people, even now still think that they can do whatever they want even if a deformity is in their way. Like I've said earlier, I think that this is a huge lasting impact because if I didn't do what I did, then the people with deformities would never be as happy with doing the things that they love!

For the IB learner profiles, I was a risk-taker because even without hearing what I was playing; I still went with my heart and believed that it was good. I was a risk-taker so much, because with every piece I compose, I have no idea if it sounds good or not. I just had to believe in myself. I also think that I am a communicator because I have to speak to people and ask them for the advice on my pieces. I have to be knowledgable because I have to have knowledge on the musical notes and what they sound like. I also have to have enough knowledge play and learn the instruments!

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