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Ludwig van Beethoven

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Birth Date:
16.12.1770
Death date:
26.03.1827
Extra names:
Ludvigs van Bēthovens, Ludwig van Beethoven
Categories:
Composer, Pianist
Nationality:
 german
Cemetery:
Zentralfriedhof, Wienna

 

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized 17 December 1770] – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.

Beethoven - Für Elise
 Fur Elise

Moonlight Sonata
 Moonlight Sonata

Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire, Beethoven moved to Vienna in his early 20s, studying with Joseph Haydn and quickly gaining a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. His hearing began to deteriorate in his late twenties, yet he continued to compose, conduct, and perform, even after becoming completely deaf.

Beethoven was bedridden for most of his remaining months, and many friends came to visit. He died on Monday, 26 March 1827, during a thunderstorm. His friend Anselm Hüttenbrenner, who was present at the time, claimed that there was a peal of thunder at the moment of death. An autopsy revealed significant liver damage, which may have been due to heavy alcohol consumption.

Beethoven's funeral procession on 29 March 1827 was attended by an estimated 20,000 Viennese citizens. Franz Schubert, who died the following year and was buried next to Beethoven, was one of the torchbearers. Unlike Mozart, who was buried anonymously in a communal grave (the custom at the time), Beethoven was buried in a dedicated grave in the Währing cemetery, north-west of Vienna, after a requiem mass at the church of the Holy Trinity (Dreifaltigkeitskirche). His remains were exhumed for study in 1862, and moved in 1888 to Vienna's Zentralfriedhof.

There is dispute about the cause of Beethoven's death; alcoholic cirrhosis, syphilis, infectious hepatitis, lead poisoning, sarcoidosis and Whipple's disease have all been proposed. Friends and visitors before and after his death clipped locks of his hair, some of which have been preserved and subjected to additional analysis, as have skull fragments removed during the 1862 exhumation. 

Some of these analyses have led to controversial assertions that Beethoven was accidentally poisoned to death by excessive doses of lead-based treatments administered under instruction from his doctor.

 

Source: wikipedia.org

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        Relation nameRelation typeBirth DateDeath dateDescription
        1Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von GoetheFriend28.08.174922.03.1832
        2Karl Friedrich  AmendaKarl Friedrich AmendaFriend27.10.177108.03.1836
        3Franz Peter SchubertFranz Peter SchubertFamiliar31.01.179719.11.1828
        4Joseph HaydnJoseph HaydnFamiliar, Teacher31.03.173231.05.1809
        5Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus MozartTeacher27.01.175605.12.1791
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