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

Ludwig Van Beethoven. Famous more for the fact he composed, Beethoven wrote and performed music while being deaf in his later 20s with the use of a sound rod to feel the vibrations. Born at the end of 1770, Beethoven followed in the family tradition of music by working at some point in the court of the Elector of Cologne. Beethoven moved to Vienna to study counterpoint and violin in 1792, a move that was funded by the Elector. His loss of hearing started in 1796, and is believed to be the result of lead poisoning, as lead was used a lot in life back then before it was known as being poisonous. His work has been divided into three sections -early,middle and late periods. The early period lasted until 1806, the middle period went from 1803 to 1814 and the later period went from 1815 until his death.

Wolfgang Mozart. Mozart was born in 1756 and composed over six hundred pieces and is regarded as one of the best composers of classical music. Mozart was considered a child prodigy, playing to royalty and composing from the age of five, and was employed as a court musician at seventeen 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. He died of what is believed to be Rheumatic fever in 1791, and rumour has it he was dictating music on his deathbed.

Bach. Bach was born in Germany in March 1685 and was a composer and organist, influential in the Baroque period and helping to bring the period to maturity. Bach was more famous as an organist rather than a composer during his lifetime, which his talent was only credited when he was rediscovered in the 19th century. He was orphaned at ten years old and was sent to live with his brother, who was an organist. It is from his brother that Bach received more instruction on playing, and became fluent on the Clavicord. Two Bach’s children from his first marriage were influential in the Rococo style that later followed Barquoe: Wilhem and Carl. He was hired by Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen as his court’s director of music, during this time Bach lost his wife in 1720 and remarried a year later. Bach was appointed as the Cantor of Thomasschule in 1723, which was a position he held up until his death after eye surgery in 1750.

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