A source-grounded illustrated read-aloud for ages 3–5 about how Beethoven learned, made, revised, and shared music, with family and friends beside him and truthful care for his changing hearing.
Read first 4 pagesThe opening of Beethoven: Music in Motion, free to read.
When Ludwig van Beethoven was seven, he played piano at a concert. A concert is music played for listeners. His father arranged it. Soon Ludwig began making music of his own. How could his new notes reach other people?
Ludwig grew up in Bonn, a town in what is now Germany. Music was work in his family. His father sang for the leader in charge of Bonn. His grandfather had led musicians there. Ludwig learned to play too.
Ludwig’s father taught him music. The lessons were strict. Ludwig practiced on a keyboard like a piano and learned the violin. He played for others at his childhood concert. Soon he would do more than play someone else’s notes.
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