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I can say that the gorgeousness of music was discovered by Ludwig Van Beethoven. For me, he was the greatest musician ever lived. Leonard Bernstein, who was a 20th century musician, thought just like I did and took Beethoven as an idol for his music. In this essay I will try to show the similarities between these two musicians. Beethoven was born in Bonn, in 1770. He gave his first piano concert at the age of seven. He stayed in Bonn for long years. The first time he went to Vienna he met Mozart. After their meeting Mozart announced him as his student. But Beethoven was officially Haydn's student. Because he thought that Haydn could not discover his talent, he started to take lessons from Schenk and Salieri in private. His goal was to bring contemporar