Beethoven and Wonder
By: Martha M. Herrarte
World History-H
• Beethoven
– Early in Life
– Career
– Personal Life
• Wonder
– History
– Career
– Personal Life
What disability
He was deaf.
did he have?
What was his
Playing the piano
“prodigy”?
Who was
Mozart
his “hero”?
Was he always
No
deaf?
Where was he
Bonn, Germany
born at?
What
Ludwig
is van
his
Beethoven
full name?
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Early In Life
• Was baptized on
December 17, 1770,
means he was born on
December 16, 1770.
• Born in Bonn,Germany to
a father who was a
musician
• Music “ran” though his
blood
• Prodigy
• Father pushed a lot
Career
• Meet his role model
Mozart
• His father pushed him
to play the best he
could
– even by learning
every instrument that
were available
• Became really good
friends with Archduke
Rudolph
– later dedicated many
compositions to him.
Personal Life
• Beethoven was
engaged to Giulietta
Guiccardia
-never married
• “rumor” going on
saying that he wrote
love letters to an
anonymous person.
• lost custody of his
nephew
• Brothers child
After Death
• He went into denial
which led to his death
on a thundering
Monday in March.
• Music is known world
wide.
What disability
He was blind
did he have?
What was his
Harmonica
first instrument?
Who was his first
Motown
contractor?
How
2 times
many
buttimes
has many
has he
been
children
married?
How many record
Prox. 73
does he have?
What
Stevland
is his
Hardaway
birth name?
Morris
Stevie Wonder
Early In Life
• Born on May 13, 1950
in Saginaw, Michigan
• Steveland Judkins
Morris; he preferred
his mother’s maiden
name
• At the age of 12 he
signed his first contract
with Motown Records
Career
• Started very young
and still is as
successful and before
• Through out the years
he has won about
twenty five Grammy
awards
• At one of the many
Inaugural balls he
sang to President
Obama
Personal Life
• First married to
Syreeta Wright in the
year of 1970
• About seven children
– From his recent wife
and two “lovers”
• Had his last child at
the age of 50
Son Kailand and daughter Aisha
Comparison
• Both had some type
of disability
– Weren’t born with it
just happened
• Considered prodigies
by people
Work Cited
• www.google.com/images
• http://delicious.com/mmhlhs10?so
rt=date&order=asc