Ludwig van Beethoven was a famous German composer born in 1770 who was considered one of the greatest musical geniuses of all time. He began studying music at a young age under his father's harsh teaching methods, which included physical abuse. Throughout his life, Beethoven struggled with relationships, loneliness, and eventually deafness, despite composing many famous works including his 5th and 9th Symphonies. He died in 1827 at the age of 56, having overcome various personal struggles to create immortal pieces of music.

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2. Ludwig van Beethoven was a
German pianist and composer widely
considered to be one of the greatest
musical geniuses of all time.
Beethoven was born on December
16, 1770, in the city of Bonn in the
Electorate of Cologne, a principality
of the Holy Roman Empire.

3.  Beethoven's father began teaching him music
with an extraordinary strictness and brutality that
affected him for the rest of his life.
 Neighbors provided accounts of the small boy
weeping while he played the clavier, standing
atop a footstool to reach the keys, his father
beating him for each hesitation or mistake.
 On a near daily basis, Beethoven was flogged,
locked in the cellar and lacked of sleep for extra
hours of practice.

4.  Hoping that his young son would be recognized,
Beethoven's father arranged his first public
recital for March 26, 1778.
 Beethoven was at best an average student, and
some biographers have assumed that he may
have had dyslexia. As he put it himself, "Music
comes to me more readily than words“.
 at the age of 10, Beethoven studied music full
time with Christian Gottlob Neefe and at the age
of 12, Beethoven published his first composition.

5.  When the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II died
in 1790, Beethoven received the immense
honor of composing a musical memorial in his
honor. For reasons that remain unclear,
Beethoven's composition was never performed,
and most assumed the young musician had
proven unequal to the task.
 However, more than a century later, Johannes
Brahms discovered that Beethoven had in fact
composed a beautiful and noble piece of music
entitled “Cantata on the Death of Emperor
Joseph II”.

7.  For a variety of reasons that included his shyness
and unfortunate physical appearance, Beethoven
never married or had children. However, he was
desperately in love with a married woman named
Antonie Brentano.
 Despite his extraordinary beautiful music,
Beethoven was lonely and frequently miserable
throughout his adult life. Short-tempered, greedy
and suspicious to the point of paranoia,
Beethoven argued with his brothers, his
publishers, his housekeepers, his pupils and his
patrons.

8.  At the same time as Beethoven was
composing some of his most immortal works,
he was struggling to come to terms with a
shocking and terrible fact: He was going deaf.

9.  Symphony No. 5
 Fur Elise
 Symphony No. 7
 Missa Solemnis
 Ode to Joy: Symphony No. 9
 Eroica: Symphony No. 3

11.  Beethoven died on March 26, 1827, at the
age of 56.
 It is assumed that his cause of death was
poisoning, but that theory has been largely
discredited.

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