1827
Beethoven composing the Missa solemnis, painted by Joseph Karl Stieler in 1820.Image: Joseph Karl Stieler · Public domainculture · Europe
The death of Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven died in Vienna on 26 March 1827, aged 56, after months of illness. Deaf for the last years of his life, he had still written some of his greatest music, including the Ninth Symphony and his late string quartets. His funeral three days later drew a crowd estimated in the tens of thousands, and his music, bridging the classical and Romantic ages, remains among the most performed in the world.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Ludwig van Beethoven ↗
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