Ludwig van Beethoven · every age
What was Ludwig van Beethoven doing at 34?
Started going deaf at 28, wrote the Ninth hearing nothing
- Nov 1805
Fidelio premiered to a near-empty house
Vienna was occupied by the French; the audience was mostly officers.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Portrait: Portrait: Joseph Karl Stieler (1820), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source