... back to Bonn to his dying mother. Five years later he went back, where he settled. He pursued his studies, first with Hadyn, but there was some clash of temperaments and Beethoven studied too with Schenk, Albrechtsberger and Salieri.In 1794,Beethoven played at private houses or palaces rather than in public.But when he first made his public debut which was in was in 1795 as a pianist, it was reported, he had fire, brilliance and fantasy as well as depth of feeling in his music. It is naturally in the piano sonatas, writing for his own instrument, that he is at his most original in this period. Little does he know Vienna was to remain his home for the rest of his life. 1802, however, was a year of crisis for Beethoven, with his realization that the impaired hearing he had noticed for some time was incurable and sure to ...

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