In music, I've been studying music through time, and we've come across Beethoven, who was perfectly in between the classical and romantic periods. When my class originally saw a portrait of him, they all immediately thought of how angry and weird they thought he looked. But then we started to find out about his life. His father was an alcoholic and pushed his son into situations he couldn't control. His mother, one of Beethoven's last strands of hope, died when he was very young. After completing all the tasks his father couldn't complete for his family for several years, his father passed away too. Beethoven was in Vienna at the time, learning from Mozart, when this happened. He decided to stay in Vienna after that because Napoleon had just invaded. When he was 57, he started to realise he was going deaf. As a popular musician, this was a difficult situation to handle. During the progression of his deafness, he composed like mad trying to create music for others even though he wouldn't be able to hear it. Beethoven was selfless and generous to others, yet most still consider him a man who was angry just because that was his personality. But no. He went through real hardships in his life, he was only the man he was because he was sad and lonely. He had no family in Vienna and the public only appreciate him for his music. Yet he is still one of the greatest musicians to have ever lived.
Learn to respect people for who they are, whether they're broken beyond repair or not.
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