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| | Ludwig van Beethoven |
 | | Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, to Johann van Beethoven (1740 — 1792), of Flemish origins, and Magdalena Keverich van Beethoven (1744 — 1787). |
 | | Beethoven's first music teacher was his father, who worked as a musician in the Electoral court at Bonn, but was also an alcoholic who beat him and unsuccessfully attempted to exhibit him as a child prodigy, like Mozart. |
 | | For some experts, Beethoven is not a Romantic, and his being one is a myth; for others he stands as a transitional figure, or an immediate precursor to Romanticism, the "inventor"of the Romantic period; for others he is the prototypical, or even archetypical, Romantic composer, complete with myth of heroic genius and individuality. |
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