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Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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Ludwig van Beethoven
Age: 56 †
Born: 1770
Born: December 16
Died: 1827
Died: March 26
Composer
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Music Pedagogue
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Organist
Pianist
Violinist
Virtuoso
Bonn
Germany
Beethoven
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Ludvig van Beethoven
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L. Bethovenas
Ludwik van Beethoven
Louis van Beethoven
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L. van Betkhoven
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