Ludwig van Beethoven · every age
What was Ludwig van Beethoven doing at 53?
Started going deaf at 28, wrote the Ninth hearing nothing
- May 7, 1824
Premiere of the Ninth Symphony at 53
He stood at the podium but could not hear the applause, so a singer turned him around to see it.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Others at 53
Portrait: Portrait: Joseph Karl Stieler (1820), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source
