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    • 25 things you literally *didn’t* know about Beethoven

  • Beethoven’s birthday

    Nobody is actually sure of the date of Beethoven’s birth – we do know he was baptised on 17 December, so he was probably born the day before.

    And we’re sticking with it.

    Beethoven's 5th, conducted by a 3-year-old boy

  • LVB is one of many Beethovens

    Far from being a prodigious only child, Beethoven had seven brothers and sisters – Kaspar Anton Karl, Nikolaus Johann, Ludwig Maria, Maria Margarita, Anna Maria Francisca, Franz Georg, and Johann Peter Anton Leym...

    van Beethoven. Sadly, four of Beethoven’s siblings died young.

  • ‘The Spaniard’

    Beethoven’s nickname at school was ‘Der Spagnol’ (‘The Spaniard’), because of his dark complexion.

    Facts about the composer beethoven was born

    It is highly likely he had Moorish blood from an ancestor serving in the Spanish army when they occupied the Netherlands.

    Read more: Was Beethoven Black? Twitter debates the composer’s heritage >

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