Calling All Classical Music LOvers!?

Question

Ok, beethoven he became deaf , Does anybody know of More Composers who are excellent just like beethoven ?? * I'm looking for composers who were like deaf, or blind, or who had a health problem and still composed .. Please !!! help!!! it's for a project!

Answer 1

Smetana also went deaf. Both Robert Schumann and Hugo Wolf had severe mental disorders. Mahler was pretty iffy too - always battling depression (about his own death) and had to have conditions just right, or he could (or would) not compose - as little a thing as a noise could end his daily composing.

Answer 2

I have puzzled the identical factor. How many might reply as derisively IN PERSON? Easy to sling insults via a track. If the query is so exasperating, why reply??? If you wish to set anyone directly on what's and isn't classical or right anyone on what's a music and what's a symphony, then achieve this POLITELY. When I first began being attentive to classical song a couple of years in the past, I didn't recognize the change among a symphony and a sonata or a concerto and an overture. I went for months with handiest the primary motion of Beethoven's Violin Concerto. I didn't recognize there used to be extra to it than one motion. I conveniently have no longer had an schooling in classical song. One can surely acquire a harsh schooling in classical song from many that have had the schooling, however I have discovered that there are plenty of informed idiots in this discussion board.

Answer 3

What about Sergei Rachmaninoff? He was a major composer of the Romantic Era who overcame numerous obstacles. He suffered periodic bouts of severe depression. His “Symphony No. 1” received a negative reception
when it premiered in 1897 and this amongst other problems with the church resulted in a severe depression. During the following years he wrote very little music. After receiving therapy Rachmaninoff wrote the second piano concerto which was received very well and is still one of his most popular pieces.

Rachmaninoff also lost all his property during the Russian Revolution and had to escape on a sledge, fleeing first to Scandanavia and then America. He never saw Russia again and he missed it terribly. Yet he continued to compose.

About Rachmaninoff's depression and tortured relationship with composing, conductor Eugene Ormandy declared: "Rachmaninoff was really two people. He hated his own music and was usually unhappy about it when he performed or conducted it in public so that the public saw only this side of him. But, among his close friends, he had a very good sense of humor and was in good spirits."

Answer 4

There is a blind French composer for the pipe organ called Jean Langlais.

Answer 5

Gaetano Donizetti had bipolar disorder. He was an Italian opera composer who lived 1797 to 1848. His most famous work is Lucia di Lammermoor (1835)

Robert Schumann also had bipolar disorder. Schumann was one of the most famous Romantic composers of the nineteenth century.

Alegedly Rachmanioff, Hendel, Mozart and several other composers suffered from ADHD, but I'm not sure

Answer 6

a modern soviet composer, Shebalin, suffered a stroke and became tone deaf. However, he continued to compose after his stroke, and according to his contemporary, Shostakovitch, produced better music afterwards. He has become a fairly standard subject of neuroscientists studying the effects of brain lesions and abilities, so you'll probably find more about him under medical sites.

Answer 7

Rodrigo was blind from birth and composed the most frequently performed concerto written during the twentieth century which is for the guitar.

Answer 8

Here's a strange one:

Josef Myslivecek (1737-1781), of Czechoslovakia, was a very highly regarded composer during his lifetime, having earned the nickname "Il Divino Boemo" ("The Divine Bohemian"). He is the only known composer known to have lost his nose.

He was the victim of a quack physician, who convinced Myslivecek that the only way to cure him of syphilis was to surgically remove his nose!

Answer 9

Bach went blind before his death, but at that point I don't believe he was composing anymore... There is a fair amount of evidence that Mozart was an alcoholic and had a gambling problem, if you consider them health problems.

Answer 10

If insanity counts as a disease you can count in most composers