Ludwig van Beethoven · every age

What was Ludwig van Beethoven doing at 18?

Started going deaf at 28, wrote the Ninth hearing nothing

1. c. 1789

   Won the right to half his father's salary to feed the family

   His father's drinking had cost him his post.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

Portrait: Portrait: Joseph Karl Stieler (1820), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source