Is it true that beethoven was all hopped on heroin and other drugs in his life?
Or am i confusing him with Mozart?
Or did neither of them do it?
Perhaps he used opium…but not heroin. It wasn’t isolated until around 1890.
Both Beethoven (d. 1827) and Mozart (d. 1791) were gone long before the A.G. Bayer company first produced heroin in the late 1800s. Too late for their contemporary Lord Byron as well.
Actually I was in my mother’s womb when she first heard Beethoven play some of his own stuff. Mommy was so impressed that she decided before I was born that I would be a composer. { I wanted to be a hockey player} Later luddy and I put back a little cynar artichoke liqueur and Newfoundland screech but we stayed away from drugs because at the time they were over 1000marks a ounce.