Romantic biographers will suggest that it was the product of an idealistic creative figure with little or no sense of practicalities. Beethoven around 1804-5. Portrait by Joseph Willibrord Mähler ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was a well-known composer of the late Classical period. His music was heavily influenced by his predecessors Mozart and Haydn. A symphony is a piece of music for an orchestra.

Ludwig van Beethoven debuted his Ninth Symphony ... he becomes less intimidating as a figure. "What the conversations bring to life is he was just a man, doing his life, going to restaurants ...