Beethoven (In Our Time)
1804 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great composers, who was born into a family of musicians in Bonn. His grandfather was an eminent musician and also called Ludwig van Beethoven. His father, who was not as talented as Beethoven's grandfather, drank heavily and died when Beethoven was still young. It was his move to Vienna that allowed him to flourish
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- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
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- Napoleonic Wars (1803)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
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- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Abolition of British slave trade (1807)
- Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806)
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