German Music

In order to trace the history of German music, it is important to trace the various revolutionaries of the German music. One of the most famous German musicians is Ludwig van Beethoven. He was born in Bonn, Germany. He then went on to study in Vienna under the musical legends of all time: Mozart and Haydn.



It was in Vienna that Beethoven first made his grand reputation as a pianist and teacher. Soon after and he became extremely famous quickly. It was at this very time that he composed most of his popular pieces.

Beethoven was responsible for developing a style of music that was completely original. His music reflected his own experiences, his sufferings and his joys. It was Beethoven's work that formed a peak that led to the further development of tonal music. It was Beethoven's work, which was one of the crucial developments that led to further evolution in the history of music.

Prior to Beethoven's time, music was composed by artists either for religious services or as a form of entertainment for people. But in the case of Beethoven's music, people listened to it simply for its own sake. Therefore, it was Beethoven who was responsible for having made music more independent of any social, or religious purposes.

German Rock Music is also an essential genre of the German music. But way back in the 1960s, Germany was literally missing from the map of rock music. But the psychedelic music that emerged eventually soon changed the German music scene in a drastic and dramatic way.

In the year 1968 three young musicians, namely Conrad Schnitzler, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Klaus Schulze, together founded the Zodiak Free Arts Lab in Berlin. This went to become the very first venue for popular electronic music in the continent of Europe.

Some around the year 1972 German musicians started going spiritual. In fact some of the last of the great German inventions in terms of German music also happened in the year 1972. It was in 1972 that a band named Neu! started playing obsessively rhythmic music.