Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, on December 16, 1770. About 1775, Beethoven, aged 4, was forced by his father to learn piano and violin. His father foolishly wanted to cultivate him into a Mozart prodigy by coercive means.

In 1778, 8-year-old Beethoven studied the basic theory of music and organ from H. Eden, a veteran court organist, and made his first performance on the stage on August 26 of the same year.

In 1783, Beethoven, 13, was a soloist and accompanist for the palace orchestra, but without salary. In the same year, he adapted "Piano Variations" based on Dressler's march, which was his first work officially published and published by German music publisher J. M. Gertz.

In November 1792, with the encouragement and support of Haydn and others, Beethoven, 22, left his hometown and began to learn to compose music for Haydn and settled in Vienna.

貝多芬的英文簡介：Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, the Holy Roman Empire - the electorate of Cologne. He is one of the representatives of Vienna classical music school and a composer in the European classical period.

翻譯：路德維希·凡·貝多芬出生於神聖羅馬帝國－科隆選侯國的波昂，維也納古典樂派代表人物之一，歐洲古典主義時期作曲家。

感情生活

貝多芬始終沒有找到終生伴侶，終生未娶，但是其情感經歷是相當豐富的。1800年，貝多芬被16歲的貴族小姐琪麗愛泰迷住。由於出身的天壤之別，最終他們勞燕分飛。而這一結局使當時深受耳疾煩擾的貝多芬差點為她自殺，但也因情傷為她創作了《C小調月光奏鳴曲》。1804年貝多芬與寡婦約瑟芬產生了感情，但二人最終因身份地位相差懸殊，失之交臂。