See Also:
Beginning of a FAMOUS Hero: The Paul Hewson (Bono) Story.
Life Lesson #76 – Be Passionate, Courageous, and Willing.
(Music up and under)
Does that music sound familiar? All over the world it is played by great orchestras and sung in churches in different languages. This famous melody was written nearly 200 years ago by a German man name Ludwig Van Beethoven. It’s amazing that anyone could write such wonderful music, but the most surprising thing about Beethoven is that he wrote this glorious Ninth Symphony while he was losing his hearing! When he attended the first orchestra ever to play it, he was totally deaf. He couldn’t even hear the people applauding when the music stopped. Many people think Ludwig Van Beethoven wrote the most beautiful music anyone has ever written, even after he couldn’t hear anymore.
Many people believe Beethoven was a HERO. But it certainly was not easy for Ludwig to grow up and become a HERO. Ludwig’s father was his very first music teacher, but his father was very mean. Many times he would come home late at night and drag his young son out of the bed to play the piano in the middle of the night. Sometimes, if Ludwig made a mistake, his father would beat him. When the boy began making up his own music, his father would call it “silly trash.”
Because of how his father treated him and his mother, Ludwig often felt sad and afraid. He began relying on himself to learn all that he could, and even when his ears would not let him hear anymore, he continued writing wonderful music.
– Jim Lord