Skymorials Editorial Ludwig van Beethoven died on March 26, 1827. For 200 years, there have been many theories surrounding the cause of his death. No one can really be certain. But the official cause of death was liver failure.

Skymorials Editorial As a student, he struggled with spelling and reading, and gave up on math. "Music comes to me more readily than words."

Skymorials Editorial Beethoven and Mozart.  According to stories, upon hearing Beethoven, Mozart said, "Keep your eyes on him; someday he will give the world something to talk about.”

Skymorials Editorial A musical prodigy. – His father arranged his first public recital at the age of 7, billed as as a "little son of 6 years.

Skymorials Editorial He had a controversial birth date. Beethoven was born on or about December 16, 1770, in the city of Bonn.According to some historians, Beethoven was baptized on December 17, 1770.

Skymorials Editorial At the time that Beethoven was composing some of his most immortal works, he was struggling to come to terms with a shocking and terrible realization: he was going deaf