Factual Recount: Biography

What is factual recount?

Factual recount reports the particular events by retelling facts or information. The writer tells the events that he/she has not been involved in that events. The objective of a factual recount is to inform a true event. 

Factual recount is written in the third person point of view. We use past tense to write a factual recount. One examples of factual recount is biography. 

Biography is a detailed description of someone's life. People who are written into a biography is usually someone who has made a great achievement and has made a contribution to the world. 

What information can you include in your biography?

Introduction
Introduce your subject in the first paragraph. tell who your subject is. What he/she is, e.g. an inventor of some technology, an athlete who has made amazing achievements, a scientist, a world leader, and many more. Next, tell why he/she is worth to write about.

Basic facts
In the next paragraphs, you can tell some basic information about the subject. You can inform the date and place of birth, parents and siblings, his or her educational background.

Events shaped the subject's life
In this paragraphs you can relates the subject journey to success. Tell his/her greatest achievement. Inform the lasting contribution to the world. Lastly, if the subject you write has dies, tell about his/her death.

Conclusion
In the last paragraph, tell why the subject is special or what people can learn from him/her.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven

Biography

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was one of the world's greatest composers. He wrote many symphonies (music written for orchestra), overtures (music for opera), and pieces for piano and other instruments. Some of his best-known compositions include 9 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, 1 violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, and 16 string quartets. 

He started studying the piano and violin when he was 4 years old. His father who was a singer was his first teacher. When he was 10 years old, he started taking lessons from Christian Neefe. He wrote his first song when he was 11. When he was 12, his teacher let him direct the orchestra part of the time. 

He knew he could play the piano very well and began to play at parties and to give concerts around Europe. When he needed an orchestra, he used a big orchestra. He would even use some of the instruments in the orchestra to sound like birds in the forest.

He liked taking long walks during the day. During these walks he planned his music. He would make notes in a notebook. Then in the evening after dinner, he would write music from about 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. He followed the same routine every day. If he was eating out and didn't have his notebook with him, he would write on the back of a menu. He would work on a composition until it was just right. Sometimes it took years, but it would be perfect when he finished it.

When he was around 30 years old, Beethoven started going deaf. Even though he could no longer hear, he was well enough to play piano. Beethoven even composed some of his best music after he was deaf!

In 1826 he caught a cold. It developed into pneumonia and he died. The world lost a great composer, but his music lives on today. Beethoven is considered one of the greatest musical geniuses who ever lived.

References:

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