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Wikipedia: Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time. Born in Bonn, of the Electorate of Cologne and a part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in present-day Germany, he moved to Vienna in his early twenties and settled there, studying with Joseph Haydn and quickly gaining a reputation as a virtuoso pianist.
![[A picture of Ludwig van Beethoven]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Universit_C3_A4t_Bonn_s.jpg "A picture of Ludwig van Beethoven")
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![[Beethoven in 1814. Portrait by Louis-René Létronne.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Beethoven_Letronne_s.jpg "Beethoven in 1814. Portrait by Louis-René Létronne.")
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![[Beethoven in 1818 by August Klöber]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Beethoven_7_s.jpg "Beethoven in 1818 by August Klöber")
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![[Beethoven in 1823; copy of a destroyed portrait by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Beethoven_Waldmuller_1823_s.jpg "Beethoven in 1823; copy of a destroyed portrait by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller")
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![[A bust based upon Beethoven's life mask]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Beethoven_bust_statue_by_Hagen_s.jpg "A bust based upon Beethoven's life mask")
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![[Beethoven in 1815]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Beethoven_M_C3_A4hler_1815_s.jpg "Beethoven in 1815")
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![[Ludwig van Beethoven: detail of an 1804 portrait by W]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Beethoven_3_s.jpg "Ludwig van Beethoven: detail of an 1804 portrait by W")
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![[House of birth, Bonn, Bonngasse 20, now the Beethoven-Haus museum]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Beethoven_house_of_birth_Bonn_2008_s.jpg "House of birth, Bonn, Bonngasse 20, now the Beethoven-Haus museum")
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![[Beethoven's death mask by Joseph Dannhauser]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Beethovendeathmask_s.jpg "Beethoven's death mask by Joseph Dannhauser")
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![[A portrait of the 13-year-old Beethoven by an unknown Bonn master (c. 1783)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Thirteen_year_old_Beethoven_s.jpg "A portrait of the 13-year-old Beethoven by an unknown Bonn master (c. 1783)")
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![[Beethoven in 1803, painted by Christian Horneman]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Beethoven_Hornemann_s.jpg "Beethoven in 1803, painted by Christian Horneman")
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