Ludwig van Beethoven · every age
What was Ludwig van Beethoven doing at 33?
Started going deaf at 28, wrote the Ninth hearing nothing
- c. 1804
Finished the Third Symphony, the Eroica, at 33
He meant it for Napoleon, then scratched the dedication when Napoleon crowned himself emperor.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Others at 33
Portrait: Portrait: Joseph Karl Stieler (1820), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source
