Ludwig van Beethoven · every age

What was Ludwig van Beethoven doing at 21?

Started going deaf at 28, wrote the Ninth hearing nothing

1. Nov 1792

   Moved to Vienna at 21 to study with Haydn

   He never returned to his hometown.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

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