# How much do you know about Beethoven? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 25, 2012, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827 "2012-09-25T22:13:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/1 "2012-09-25T22:13:04Z")
WITHOUT using Google; Do you know what happened when he died? He decomposed Several coworkers did not know this!:eek: ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/2 "2012-09-25T22:14:14Z")
Beethoven wasn’t nearly as awesome as Air Bud. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/3 "2012-09-25T22:26:42Z")
I knew that. Itzhak Perlman told me. (Perlman loves stupid and corny jokes, but can tell them in a way that makes them hilarious). ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/4 "2012-09-25T22:39:09Z")
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe podcast told me. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/5 "2012-09-25T22:41:21Z")
All I know is…Da, da, da, DAH… ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/6 "2012-09-25T22:53:07Z")
How is there not a mention of [Monty Python](http://www.lyricsdepot.com/monty-python/decomposing-composers.html)? > [@](#): > > They’re decomposing composers. > There’s nothing much anyone can do. > You can still hear Beethoven, > But Beethoven cannot hear you. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/7 "2012-09-25T23:11:57Z")
I heard Richard Thompson do a song (not written by him but on an album he participated in) from a composer decomposing Not that I’ve been boxed they say my music rocks Now that I’m deceased my record sales increased [Here is a YouTube link](http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=now%20that%20i%20am%20dead&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDUQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DlocEfzaWcGg&ei=2zliUK_WMMTCigKf74CIDQ&usg=AFQjCNHwg9dPZqoRGCHyqv9ccQKpimZpIQ) which I haven’t looked at yet. I saw him do it live. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Mama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/8 "2012-09-25T23:34:31Z")
I don’t know enough, obviously ! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/9 "2012-09-26T01:03:52Z")
> [@Atomic\_Mama](#): > > I don’t know enough, obviously ! 😃 And I think I know too much. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/10 "2012-09-26T02:10:02Z")
I know that his favorite works include Mozart’s ‘Requiem’, Handal’s ‘Messiah’, and Bon Jovi’s ‘Slippery When Wet’. ---
**Author:** ![tellyworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tellyworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellyworth)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/11 "2012-09-26T02:14:05Z")
What’s brown and sits on a piano? Beethoven’s last movement. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/12 "2012-09-26T03:04:22Z")
I know that he never hurt anyone. Beethoven just wrote music. ---
**Author:** ![Tess\_Trueheart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Tess\_Trueheart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tess_Trueheart)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/13 "2012-09-26T03:15:33Z")
… I was all ready to get into the late Beethoven piano sonatas and why they’re different from the middle Beethoven piano sonatas, and how he used sacred texts in the concert hall which set off a major compositional paradigm shift… but it’s a giggle thread, so: ha! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/14 "2012-09-26T23:01:39Z")
These puns are really Pathétique. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/15 "2012-09-27T00:45:04Z")
I think he just rolled over; tell Tchaikovsky the news! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/16 "2012-09-27T00:50:55Z")
> [@K364](#): > > These puns are really Pathétique. They’re better by Moonlight. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/17 "2012-09-27T01:41:37Z")
The great tragedy of Beethoven’s life was that Elise never put out for him, even after he wrote that music for her. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/18 "2012-09-27T04:20:46Z")
I’ve really got nothin’ to add here, so I guess my reply would be: So: 'Nada. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/19 "2012-09-27T06:58:42Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > I know that his favorite works include Mozart’s ‘Requiem’, Handal’s ‘Messiah’, and Bon Jovi’s ‘Slippery When Wet’. Most excellent. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/20 "2012-09-27T12:25:10Z")
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