Month: June 2020

Beethoven or Mozart? Who is better? Beethoven is better than Mozart because Beethoven made excellent music even though he was deaf! Beethoven’s music is also the surprising kind of music like it suddenly becomes super quit or a beautiful melody turns into some loud dramatic music sounds while Mozart’s music are all happy kind, the same tune over and over again like la la la la la do do do do or something like that.

Some people might ask, “Who is Beethoven?” or “Who is Mozart?” Here are 2 links to help you understand who they are.http://www.favorite-classical-composers.com/beethoven-biography.html and http://www.favorite-classical-composers.com/mozart-biography.html. But for people who are too lazy, I will give a brief explanation. Beethoven is a great composer(better than Mozart) who is deaf while Mozart is a good composer who started piano when he was really young. Even though Mozart was good when he was a kid, he didn’t face as much challenges as Beethoven did, for instance, he could participate in conversations and understand them But one of the things that both happened to them was that they both died and no one knows exactly how but most people think it’s because of illnesses.

So in the end, who is better? Beethoven or Mozart? Well, Mozart is a pretty good composer but Beethoven is a better composer than Mozart is.

“The Lady, or the Tiger,” is a short story by Frank R. Stockton about a king who determines if people are guilty by having them open one of two doors. One has a beautiful maiden that the man needs to marry, and the other has a tiger ready to kill the man. However, in this scene, the man that is presented with the two doors is the lover of the princess. The princess tells him to choose the right door. The readers are left to decide which door he chooses. If I were the princess, I would hope he picks the door with the tiger. 

It may seem like a terrible decision, but there is one main reason why I think this is the best choice. To start, if the man were to marry the maiden, the princess would never forgive him as she loves him. The princess would most likely be happier knowing that the man died loving her rather than live loving another girl. 

This is hard to write about… 

The short story, “The Lady or the tiger,” is about a man that is in love with the princess, but she has a very protective father. Her father thinks he is not good enough for his daughter because he is in a lower class. Because of this he puts him in a trial. In the trial there are two doors, one leads to a bloodthirsty tiger and the other to the prettiest lady in the kingdom and has to marry her. He has to pick randomly. By doing this the King’s daughter does not get married with him.

The main theme of this story is choices and consequences. In the story the princess shows this theme when she has to decide the fate of the man. She has to decide if he dies or lives on. Both of them have consequences. The the tiger door’s downfall is that she will never see him again but the other door’s is that he will be with someone else and she might be jealous. This shows the theme choices and consequences.

In the short story, when the king thinks you’ve done a crime, you are sent to an arena with two doors. Behind 1 of the doors is a fearsome tiger, the other a beautiful lady. If you choose the door with the tiger, it means a terrible death. If you pick one with the lady, you must marry her, regardless of whether you already have a wife and a family. The thing is, which one is worse, the lady or the tiger.

If the lady is behind the door, it depends on who she is. If you don’t like her, you still must marry her. Also, I think this is very rude because the lady also doesn’t get the decision to see if she wants to marry you. This is kind of sexist because the lady is a prize, instead of being regarded as a human being with her own feelings. However, if you and the lady like each other, then it is certainly better than death.

If the tiger is behind the door, there is nothing that can be done. You will die. Would you rather a miserable yet long life or death? I would choose the latter option. As Dumbledore says in Harry Potter:”After all, to the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” Dying would mean you would go on to whatever is there after death. That seems more interesting than continuing to live unhappily.

I think it matters entirely on your opinion to decide which is worse. I think the lady is worse because I am a girl and also because death would get me away from that crazy, terrible, world where it doesn’t matter whether you are innocent or guilty for a crime, and you’re entire life depends on a decision of which door. I think we should all create our own doors in the world that lead us to happiness, instead of the black and white doors of marriage or death. Everyone deserves a full life, and you’re life can’t be full if you’re unhappy.

In conclusion, I would rather die than be unhappy for my whole life, and I would want to see what is after death. This is a really interesting story that makes you think a lot about your choices, and whether you made the write decision.

After reading Sebastian Mitchell’s “Beethoven Biography: Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven”, I suddenly realized that I actually felt really bad for Beethoven. I thought, “Man, that dude totally rocked, but his life was so unnecessarily and so freaking sad.” And here’s why:

First of all, Beethoven’s father wasn’t really that cool. He was like, “Hey, my dude, Beethoven, look at how awesome that Mozart guy was! He started musical training at like four and also he made a lot of money by touring and doing concerts!” Essentially, he just wanted to make money off of Beethoven. So Beethoven started playing piano at four, too, and his father started getting a lot of money as well. I don’t think this is a really good thing to do as a parent, unless you want your child to be like “MONEY MONEY MONEY” in the future… OR unless you just want to teach your child how to manage their money really early in life so that they don’t grow up to be another broke Mozart. I mean, that would be a good idea… But I guess his father really wanted money, so… Beethoven must’ve been quite sad. Just imagine: Beethoven working his butt off at the piano and then suddenly, his dad bursts into the room with a rich-guy look on his face and orders him to perform ten more new concerts all over town just for the money. I would’ve cried.

Secondly, Beethoven totally rocks, but when he was around twenty, he started turning deaf. To you, it might be really really sad, but Beethoven… he’s a MUSIC PRODIGY. A PRODIGY. In MUSIC. So turning deaf was definitely devastating to him. He shut himself in his room and started writing a very depressed letter (Something along the lines of this):

Hey bro,
I seriously can't keep doing this. Like, I'm deaf, how am I going to hit 93,843,785,468,954,985,934 subscribers on my YouTube channel if I can't even make music, I hate people, I don't wanna come out of my house anymore, and you totally understand that, right?
But..... I'm just..... WAY. TOO. GENIUS. Like, dude, have you seen my symphonies?? They're, like, SO sick. The world needs me and I can't let the people who actually think I'm super awesome down, can I? So I'm officially not quitting my musician job anymore!
From,
Your buddy Beethoven

I mean, like, if I were a musician and I was turning deaf, then I would’ve kicked and screamed my head off! Beethoven was so awesome about it that at the end, he decided to actually keep composing! He created so many different pieces that we still play today.

Lastly, throughout his whole life, a lot of people also made him really really sad. For example, when he first started traveling and starting his music career, his mom got so sick that he actually had to travel back to his home to see her. And then after she died, his dad started being an alcoholic. Here are the main reasons why alcoholics are bad (Totally not copied from my last Mozart essay):

1. Alcoholics drink alcohol.
2. Then they really really want more.
3. Then when they drink too much,
4. They get drunk and sleepy and happy at the same time.
5. Don’t drunk people tend to do weird things and say weird things?

And if you still don’t believe me, here:

1. You have to be a freaking 21 year-old to be able to drink.
2. A lot of sources on the internet also say that drinking is bad for your health: www.healthline.com, www.bbc.com, and www.health.harvard.edu, just to name a few.
3. Why do you think everybody else doesn’t like alcoholics??

So his mom died and his dad drank. It gets worse from here: Beethoven was in an awesome relationship with this student of his. But the problem was, back then, it was the weirdest thing ever for a super-cool person to marry a not-so-highly-ranked person. So Beethoven and his student just eventually gave up. There may have been another important person in his life named Elise (Dude, everybody plays that trendy Für Elise piece), but that’s not for sure… but Beethoven did write a whole lot of mushy gushy letters to her, so you decide. Basically, Beethoven wasn’t able to get a wife either, and he was really sad about that. So Beethoven tried to win his nephew over from his nephew’s mother after his brother died. He probably just wanted someone to live with to not be lonely or he just wanted someone to carry on his musical ability and legacy for him, since he didn’t have any children. But unfortunately for him, he lost against his nephew’s mother. I’m feeling really bad for him at this point. Mother died, father drinking, no wife, no family to live with, and don’t forget, still deaf?

If I were him, I would’ve definitely given up all hope. But he kept on persevering and kept on making great music for all of us present people to play and enjoy. Despite his deafness, he still made an attempt to conduct at some concerts. I still feel pretty bad for his losses throughout life, but I think he coped with it well and–he’s just an absolutely amazing musician.

I think that “The lady and the tiger” might be historical fiction because the “arena” in the story kind of relates to the Colosseum in Rome and buildings like this in like, Greece and other similar civilizations.

Some things that this arena in the story has in common with the Colosseum is that they both have doors, and seats for spectators. Things that they don’t have in common include, battling beasts and other people, and an elevator where tigers and lions are transported to a doorway where they can enter the arena.

Also at the end of the book, the author gave us a choice to choose if you think that the tiger came out the door that the man chose or the girl? I personally think that it’s the tiger because in the book it said that she thought “Would it not be better for him to die at once, and go to wait for her in the blessed regions of semi-barbaric futurity?” and I thought that she couldn’t bear to see her lover marry another woman, it also said that “Her decision had been indicated in an instant, but it had been made after days and nights of anguished deliberation. She had known she would be asked, she had decided what she would answer, and, without the slightest hesitation, she had moved her hand to the right.”

In the book it also said that the girl that was inside one of the doors was a person that she hated. So I came to two conclusions : 1. She doesn’t want the person she loved to marry a person she hated. 2. She probably thought that killing him maybe was the best solution to this problem because even if he did choose the right door, he would probably live the rest of his days with a bad reputation.

Therefore, I think that the princess chose the tiger.

Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most important people in all of classical music. His influence made an impression on nearly every composer who lived after him. He should be one of the greatest of all time.

He was born in 1770 in Germany. His grandpa and dad were professional singers, so his whole family was musicians. He started learning the piano when he was around 4 years old, who was taught by his dad. It was one of his hobbies, and got good quickly. Later on he became an organist, and also played the viola for an . He loved playing it, and thrived in the musical environment. Because of his piano playing skills, Beethoven was surrounded by people and interested Viennese social elite from early on in his career, which included most of the famous musicians of that time.

However, in his late 20s, he started to lose his hearing, and experienced a loud ringing in his ears. Since Beethoven lived for music, his deafness devastated him a lot. He even thought a lot about suicide. After a lot of internal struggle, he decided it was worth it to keep going. When he was 30, he premiered Septet, one of his most popular pieces in his lifetime. He was now starting to become well known as a composer, not just a pianist.

Beethoven became more grumpy and irritable and started dressing untidily. He also became ruder towards other people and would start to care less and less about his appearance. In 1809 Beethoven a lifetime annuity, but it was only only if he stayed in Vienna, so he agreed and settled there for the rest of his life. But payments made his income not stable. He became very sick during the last few years of his life, and began to sketch out a Tenth Symphony while on his deathbed, but he never got to complete it.

Beethoven was a person who specialized in music. He loved playing piano and started at four. During his lifetime, he started to have hearing problems and it was getting worse.

Beethoven’s life started out great. His father was a great man and musician. The love of music ran through the family. He was naturally gifted at the skill at the piano and learned much quicker than other people.

Beethoven thought a person named Haydn was the greatest composer alive, so he then moved to Vienna at the age of 22. Beethoven was being crowded by famous musicians, curious, and interested people because of his incredible ability of his piano playing. Aristocrats were very impressed by his skills and he established himself as one of the many famous musicians.

Around in Beethoven’s 20s, his hearing was being damaged while experiencing loud rings in his ears. Being deaf made critical damage in his life because of being a musician, almost everything is about hearing. He thought very solemnly about killing himself because of his hearing loss. his final decision was no.

Although Beethoven did not suicide, he wanted to keep living for the art of music. He was no longer a pianist, but a composer. Beethoven created many pieces and his most famous one was septet when he was in his 30s.

He started to care less about his appearance and his feelings towards others. Beethoven became gruff and moody. He did not care about his manners and only did about his music.

He became even ruder and appearance much less as his hearing began to be much worse. He became very ill and after four operations, his stomach injury got infected and he eventually died. Twenty-thousand people lined to go to his funeral for he was very popular and famous.

Beethoven was a good and bad man. He was a good man for his music and when he was younger. Beethoven was a bad man because of his behavior and appearance although that probably does not matter because he is mostly remembered as a famous musician, pianist, and composer.

No matter whether or not you’re into classical music or not, you’ve probably heard about Beethoven, then Mozart. These were the pioneers of classical music. However, there were differences, and it was pretty obvious.

Mozart

Mozart was born in 1756 in Salzburg. He started playing the piano when he was 4 years old. Mozart was a child prodigy, and when his father realized that, they went to multiple countries, and Mozart was a leading figure in most countries. Mozarts’ music is known for its smoothness. Everything just seems to go the right way and in the right order.

Beethoven

Beethoven was born in 1770 in Bonn. He also started playing the piano at 4. Beethoven was also a child prodigy. Beethoven’s pieces were mostly based on Mozarts, but there were surprises where you wouldn’t expect it. For example, just when you think you’re about to get some relaxing music, you get a sudden surprise.

Summary

I believe that both composers had complicated lives, composing many different pieces. However, I like Beethoven more than Mozart because his music is like an adventure. There will always be surprises, which I think is perfectly timed in Beethovens’ pieces. On the other hand, Mozart’s pieces are enchanting, but after hearing multiple pieces, it gets pretty dull. There just aren’t enough different patterns. Beethoven’s pieces always have some surprises, and they can vary.

In the short story “the Lady, or the Tiger”, the kingdom has a tradition. If one is needed to be on trial, they would have to go into arena, where there are two doors. One with a beautiful lady, the other with a ferocious tiger in the midst of the room. If the person in the arena has chosen the room with the tiger in it, they are considered guilty and a felon. This tradition is considered an entertainment in the kingdom and many find it very enjoyable to watch just as one would watch a T.V. show.

One day, the King’s daughter, the princess, is found being intimate with a very wealthy prince. Since the King is so fond of her daughter, he sentences him to the lady or tiger trial. Even though his daughter loves him so much, she is almost necessitated to watch because she is so entertained by it. Behind the door of the lady, is a lady who is a fangirl of the handsome prince. While, the other door contains the tiger. However, the princess knows which is behind the door and is uncertain which door to direct the prince to. She is envious because she think the prince secretly loves the other girl, but is also afraid to see her lover ripped apart into shreds by the merciless tiger. The intrepid prince is so trustworthy in the princess that when she gives him a laconic point to the right door, he immediately, without hesitation steps towards the door.

This brings me to the theme of the story. This theme also proves that themes can repeat in different stories since I’m going to steal the theme from the short story “the Lottery” .”Don’t blindly follow traditions just because they are traditions.” Even when the princess’s lover is sentenced to the fate of either being married or being eaten alive, she follows the tradition. Even when knowing that it’s wrong. She follows the tradition for the sake of her entertainment and just because it’s a tradition. Just like in “the Lottery”, the tradition could be cause very grievous consequences, as severe as killing your lover.