Others on Beethoven

"One of [Christian] Neefe's first students was a sullen, grubby, taciturn 10-year-old keyboard player named Ludwig van Beethoven. He was the son of an alcoholic singer who had more or less beat music into him. The kid seemed more like a charity case than a budding musician, but Neefe soon discovered that his talent could put him in the league of the musical phenomenon of the age, a child of freakish gifts named Mozart." - "How the Illuminati influenced Beethoven"

"Beethoven’s last act was to sit up in his deathbed and curse the thunderstorm that raged outside." - "Touched by Fire"