How did critics interpret a piece in light of the composers other works or personal events?

The purpose of the alt-history narrative is to help you craft an account of events from a limited set of sources. We are using fake primary sources about real historical figures for three reasons. First, we need to upend the notion that history is mostly settled business by offering alternate scenarios that interact with the timelines that we know (or think we know). Second, we can develop the sort of imagination that historians must bring to our work: often we need to think through how an event might have unfolded but didn’t in order to understand why it occurred the way that it actually did. Third, we can experience the mystery and wonder of handling archival documents, since we have limited opportunities to handle physical documents that connect with the course.
Your narrative should be four to five pages long, double spaced in twelve-point font. In it, you will write a biographical narrative of Beethoven or Mozart based on the dossier of sources that youve been given. Your first step should be to create a composer chronology that is, a list of personal and professional events as you understand them through your primary sources. Ask questions as you make up the chronology. Why did a particular piece have a nickname, and where did it come from? Why did a composer write a piece at a certain point in time? How did critics interpret a piece in light of the composers other works or personal events? What happened in the composers life that diverges from the historical accounts we know? The chronology should begin where the real timeline leaves off (for Beethoven around 1800, and for Mozart, 1791).
In crafting your narrative, avoid the sort of writing that might be better communicated through bullet points or lists. The purpose of the narrative is not simply to convey the chronology through prose. Rather, it should provide an interpretation of the chronology that analyzes the primary sources and introduces questions, problems, and evidence-based theories about them. Your narrative will be assessed according to the rubric that I have provided.