" To play a wrong note is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable ! ” - Beethoven

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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN = Iconic Musicians Series

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Ludwig van Beethoven, (born December 1770, died March 26, 1827), was a German

composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in

the history of Western music. His works rank among the most performed of the

classical music repertoire and span the transition from the Classical period

to the Romantic era in classical music.

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He was the son of a court musician. His musical talent was obvious at an early

age, and intensively taught by his father. His talent for the piano was soon

realized and he gave his first public performance at the age of eight.

Beethoven's father tried to make Ludwig a child prodigy, like Mozart, but did

not succeed. It was not until his adolescence that Beethoven began to attract

some attention.

Beethoven was later taught by the composer and conductor Christian G. Neefe,

under whose tutelage he published his first work in 1783. At age 21, he moved

to Vienna, which subsequently became his base, and studied composition with

Mozart's teacher, Franz Joseph Haydn.

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His first major orchestral work, the First Symphony, premiered in 1800, and

his first set of string quartets was published in 1801. Despite his hearing

deteriorating during this period, he continued to conduct, premiering his

Third and Fifth Symphonies in 1804 and 1808, respectively. His Violin Concerto

appeared in 1806.

His last piano concerto (No. 5, Op. 73, known as "The Emperor"), dedicated to

his patron Archduke Rudolf of Austria, premiered in 1811.

He was almost completely deaf by 1814, and he then gave up performing and

appearing in public. He also became terribly depressed with this situation.

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Despite that he was going deaf, Beethoven composed many of his most admired

works, including later symphonies, mature chamber music and the late piano

sonatas. His only opera "Fidelio" and his final Symphony, No.9, one of the

first examples of a choral symphony, were written sometime around 1819-24.

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Beethoven was very unlucky in love. He fell in love often, even proposed

to some, but he never got married. He once wrote a ten-page love letter to

his "Immortal Beloved", which he never sent to its addressee. To this day,

people are still wondering who was this mysterious woman.

When he was 40, he fell in love with 19 year old girl, whom he wrote a song,

"Fur Elise", but she refused to marry him.

He was often very depressed and ill.

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He defied the onset of deafness from the age of 28 to produce an output that

encompasses 722 musical works, including 9 symphonies, 35 piano sonatas and

16 string quartets.

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Other interesting facts about Beethoven . . .

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In 1787, Beethoven made his first visit to Vienna, where Mozart was living

at the time. The nervous 17-year-old was introduced to Mozart, and played

to him at his request. Mozart, considering the piece he performed to be a

studied show-piece, was some what cold in his expressions of admiration.

Beethoven, noticing this, begged for a theme for improvisation, and, inspired

by the presence of the master he revered so highly, played in such a manner

as gradually to engross Mozart's whole attention. Turning quietly to the

bystanders, Mozart said, " Mark that young man, he will make himself a name

in the world ! "

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Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (also one of his most complex pieces) was written

when he was almost entirely deaf. But even so, he insisted on conducting the

first performance of this masterpiece. He couldn’t hear the huge applause at

the end of the Show, which got five standing ovations !

Legend has it that a young female singer approached the maestro and turned

him around to face the audience, to see the ovation and the happy people.

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In 1977 NASA sent into space two Deep-Space-Probes. Voyager 1 and 2 each

carried on board a golden record - an interstellar collection of human sounds

and images meant to represent life on Earth for any alien civilization that

might come across it.

Like a message in a bottle, hoping to reach out to other intelligent life.

The music included on the disc had to bear the burden of the entire history of

humanity’s music, because these Deep-Space-Probes might last longer than our

civilization here on Earth !

Considered by many to be the greatest composer of all time, two pieces of

Ludwig Van Beethoven´s music are on the gold-Disc, to last for all eternity.

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I used 24 well prepared high-resolution images (some fixed in Photoshop),

from life-size wax-figures of L.V.Beethoven wearing his 1801 era clothing.

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Images were Trained on the Stable-Diffusion-v1-5-pruned.ckpt,

to 1200 steps, with a batch of 2 for best results.

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For Best results use LoRA weight parameters at = 0.6, 0.7, 0.8 , 0.9

You may test other settings while using diferent Checkpoints for a better

A.i. image render, and for Ai-realistic-Photos or Ai-Artworks.

As usual, the less weight number , the less it will look like him.

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Made using Kohya-ss. Place it in

"stable-diffusion-webui\extensions\sd-webui-additional-networks\models\lora" folder

in Automatic1111 WebUI root folder.

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The original LORA name is

ludw1gvb33th0v3n_v1.0

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Useful words you can use in your Prompts...

a man with a messy hair style

a man with a messy hair style and a serious look

a man with a messy hair style wearing a 1801 suit

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This is a S.F.W. (Safe for Work) Lora ,

but can also create N.S.F.W. images (Not Safe For Work).

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To MAKE SURE the image renders in a S.F.W. manner, include in your "Negative Prompt"

the following words....

((NSFW)), ((Nude)), ((Naked)), ((Vagina)), ((Pussy)), ((Nipples)), ((Ass)) , ((Penis)),

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To MAKE SURE the image renders in a N.S.F.W. manner, include in your "Negative Prompt"

the following words....

((Clothes)), (Clothing), (pants), (bikini), ((bra)), (underwear), (dress), (shirt),

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