Ludwig Van Beethoven
"What you are, you are accident by birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes, there is only one Beethoven."
I was born in the year 1770 in Bonn, Germany. My father, a tenor in the electoral music establishment, desired a son who would be the equal of Mozart. He pushed me into the musical world when I was a toddler, he bought me every type of instrument that he knew of, and taught me how to read and write music. As I matured as an artist I realized that I would have to leave Bonn to seek a composer to study under. At the age of twelve I had already composed several keyboard pieces, unde