Ludwig van Beethoven

Creation

Date of birth : 12/15/1770

Date of death : 03/25/1827

City of birth : Bonn, Electorate of Cologne, Holy Roman Empire [now Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany]

Beethoven was the child of a Flamian musician family and became a member of the electoral orchestra of Bonn in 1783. In 1787 he studied at Mozart's in Vienna and in 1792 he moved all to Vienna becoming a student of Joseph Haydn. The Vienna High Society loved him as a piano player as well as as composer. In 1802 his deafness became serious making Beethoven a real eccentric until his death in 1827.