Party hearty! 
He would have been 251 had he lived.
If he were alive today, he’d be dead.
Not dead, just decomposing.
He never got his picture on bubble gum cards, did he?
It’s also the 248th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, so let’s put the kettle on and have a cuppa! 
I am celebrating by listening to his string quartets, and decorating the flat.
I’d never seen this one. What a trendoid Schulz was. 
I understand he had trouble later in life with hearing. 
^ What?
Is this Beethoven’s birthday or his baptismal day?
He was baptized on the 17th.
Yes, but It never stopped him from experimenting with new genres! 
Oy, it’s Beethoven sweatshirts you want?
Enjoy! 
He also continued to influence pop music well into the 1970s: