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Ludwig van Beethoven

German composer (1770-1827)

  • Audience223K
  • Fame96.0
  • Momentum10.0
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223K youtube followers
  • Audience223K
  • Fame96.0
  • Momentum10.0
  • Global rank#5
  • Germany rank#1
  • Musicians rank#2
Lived 1770–1827, aged 57Germany
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  • Wikipedia
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  • Global rank
    #5
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  • Era
    1770–1827
    Aged 57
  • Awards
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Summary
Updated 2026-08-31

He wrote some of the most performed music in history while going deaf. Beethoven bridged the Classical and Romantic eras, expanding the symphony and string quartet into forms that still dominate concert halls.

Biography

About

Born in Bonn in 1770, Beethoven was drilled as a prodigy by his father before finding steadier ground with teacher Christian Gottlob Neefe and the von Breuning family. At 21 he moved to Vienna to study with Haydn, built a reputation as a virtuoso pianist, and by 1795 had published his first opus-numbered works. His career unfolded in three phases: early works in the classical mold of Haydn and Mozart, a middle period from 1802 to 1812 that produced the Eroica and Fifth Symphonies at unprecedented scale, and a late stretch of radical invention — the choral Ninth Symphony in 1824, the Hammerklav…

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In their own words

Sourced, dated quotes from Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven
said
Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)
— Said on his deathbed, 1827 [citation needed]
Ludwig van Beethoven
said
The day-to-day exhausted me!
— Karl von Baden, August 23, 1823
Ludwig van Beethoven
said
You will hear nothing of me here ... Fidelio? They cannot give it, nor do they want to listen to it. The symphonies? They have no time for them. My concertos?
— Thayer 1967b, p. 801. (1822)
Ludwig van Beethoven
said
The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.
— Conversations (March 1820)
Ludwig van Beethoven
said
One clashes with stupidity of all kinds. And then how much money must be spent in advance! The way in which artists are treated is really scandalous.
— 24th November, 1814
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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Albums

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  • Symphony no. 5 / Egmont Overture / Consecration of the House Overture
    1963
  • Alfred Brendel Plays Beethoven
    1962
  • Diabelli-Variationen
    1962
  • Symphony no. 3 (Eroica)
    1962
  • 4 Ouvertures: Egmont / Prometheus / Coriolan / Leonore III
    1962
  • Piano Concerto no. 3 in C minor, op. 37
    1962
  • Symphonie Nr. 6 "Pastorale"
    1962
  • Piano Sonatas opp. 109,110
    1962
  • Sinfonie nr. 3 Es-Dur op. 55 (Eroica)
    1962
  • Symphonie N°5 / Ouverture : Coriolan
    1962
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Score breakdown

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Fame
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96.0
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Score components
Momentum10.0
Historical33.0
Now attention28.4
Source confidence80.0
Completeness90.0
Global rank
#5
Country rank
#1
Category rank
#2
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    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
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  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
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