When Beethoven was very young, …show more content…
He did not have too many duties, which left time for composing and music development. He traveled to Vienna in the spring of 1787, though there was little documentation, it is believed that he met Mozart and got instruction while there. After two weeks, he went back to Bonn because his Mother’s health slowly becoming worse and more life threatening. His mother died in July of that same year. He then started to suffer from depression and started to lose money and soon started to lose money and became short of available funds. When he was about nineteen years old, in 1789, he put himself at the head of the family by requesting that he get half of his father’s salary to allow him to more easily help provide for his brothers. He was granted permission to receive