Ludwig van Beethoven · every age
What was Ludwig van Beethoven doing at 38?
Started going deaf at 28, wrote the Ninth hearing nothing
- Dec 22, 1808
Premiered the Fifth and Sixth symphonies in one concert
The program ran four hours. With no heating, the audience is said to have sat there freezing.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Portrait: Portrait: Joseph Karl Stieler (1820), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source