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Ludwig Von Beethoven
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Ludwig Von Beethoven is one of the greatest musical composers. He was born
in Bonn, of Dutch extraction and is the author of symphonies and sonatas that
are known over all the world. He showed early a most precocious genius for
music, commenced his education at five as a musician; trained at first by
a companion named Pfeiffer, to whom he confessed he owed more than all
his teachers; trained at length under the tuition of the most illustrious
of his predecessors, Bach and Handel, and was revealed the most wonderful musical
talent. He left Bonn and settled in Vienna; attracted the attention of
Mozart; at the age of 40 was attacked with deafness that became total and
lasted for life. Beethoven continued to compose all the same, to the admiration of
thousands. During his last days was a prey to melancholy and during a
thunderstorm he died. Goethe pronounced him at his best "an utterly
untamed character." Beethoven lived from 1770 to 1827.
Beethoven Facts and Information
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