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Here are details on three of the greatest piano players/composers known to grace the keys.

Ludwig Van Beethoven. Beethoven may be the most famous compsers more to the fact that he composed, wrote and performed his music while becomming deaf in his early twenties. Beethoven was born in December 1770, his grandfather with the same name and his father both had worked in the court of the Elector of Cologne, as later he did. Beethoven moved to Vienna to study counterpoint and violin in 1792, a move that was funded by the Elector. Beethoven noticed he was loosing his hearing in 1796 while in Vienna, which has been rumoured to be because of lead posioning. His work has been divided into three sections -early,middle and late periods. The early period was said to be influenced by Mozart and lasted up until 1806, the middle period went from 1803 untill 1814, and the late period from 1815 until his death.

Wolfgang Mozart. Mozart, born in 1756 is thought to be one of the greatest classical composers, with over six hundred pieces wrote and composed to his name. Mozart ws a child prodigy, composing from the age of 5 and playing to royalty and at seventeen he was employed as court musician in Salzburg. When he visited Vienna is decided to stay there -and this is the city where he became famous, but not rich by any means. Mozart died on December 1791, of what is believed to be rhuematic fever, and rumor goes that he dictatced the rest of his final piece from his deathbed.

Bach. Born in 1865 in Germany, Bach helped to mature the classical subgenre of Baroque, being hugely influential on the genre. Bach’s talent for composing was only really acknowledged during the 19th century after renewed interest in his work. He was only credited as a talented organist during his lifetime. When Bach was orphaned at 10 years of age we was shipped off to live with his brother, an organist. It is from his brother that Bach received more instruction on playing, and became fluent on the Clavicord. Two of the seven Bach children from his first marriage were also great composers in their own right, helping to mould the style known as Rococo -Carl and Wilhem Bach. Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen hired Bach to serve as his director of music in 1717 until 1723, during which time his first wife died in 1720, and he remarried in December 1721. In 1723, Bach was appointed Cantor of Thomasschule, a posistion he held until his death in 1750.

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