# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**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, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/21 "2012-09-27T12:45:14Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Most excellent. It’s no mere Bagatelle. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/22 "2012-09-27T13:19:03Z")
I know that Ray Charles stole one of his most popular songs from Beethoven, as shown in [this rare footage](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X20woQAh-c4). Apologies for the poor video quality but it is over 200 years old. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/23 "2012-09-27T16:16:14Z")
The kid in Peanuts loves Beethoven. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/24 "2012-09-27T17:05:05Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > I knew that. Itzhak Perlman told me. (Perlman loves stupid and corny jokes, but can tell them in a way that makes them hilarious). LOL, I had the fun of meeting him once back in 1979 [I went to school with David Zinman’s kid and met him backstage at a concert with David Zinman, who also has a wicked funny sense of humor.] One of my favorite books to swipe out of my dad’s library when growing up was Victor Borge’s [My Favorite Intermissions](http://www.amazon.com/My-Favorite-Intermissions-Musical-Missing/dp/038502651X). ---
**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, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/25 "2012-09-27T18:35:12Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > I knew that. Itzhak Perlman told me. (Perlman loves stupid and corny jokes, but can tell them in a way that makes them hilarious). Yes, when I met him in Carnegie Hall, he told me he drove there in his Kreisler. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/26 "2012-09-27T18:38:16Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > The kid in Peanuts loves Beethoven. His name is Schroeder. Lucy once told him that Beethoven wasn’t so great, because he’d never been on a bubble gum card. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/27 "2012-09-27T18:39:35Z")
“Our greatest accomplishment was convincing the world that Hitler was German and Beethoven was one of US.” -Austria ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/28 "2012-09-27T18:40:37Z")
Didn’t Ludwig have a cute, randy sister named Misty? ---
**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 27, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/29 "2012-09-27T20:00:23Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Yes, when I met him in Carnegie Hall, he told me he drove there in his Kreisler. And how did he get there? Practice, practice! ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/30 "2012-09-27T20:17:01Z")
I don’t know about Beethoven, but Bach never had any money, which is why he always played Baroque. ---
**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, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/31 "2012-09-27T23:47:22Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Didn’t Ludwig have a cute, randy sister named Misty? More surprisingly, he also had a misty brother named Randy. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2012, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/32 "2012-09-29T07:14:17Z")
Why couldn’t Beethoven find his teacher? He was Haydn. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2012, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/33 "2012-09-29T08:32:16Z")
Beethoven was explaining to his manservant Hans how musicians find inspiration all around them in everything they see and hear, and he said “For instance, Hans, I might even find that something you say or do inspired my very next symphony - think of that!”. “Oh, that’s a good joke, master!” exclaimed Hans. “A lunkhead like me inspire a genius like you! What a hoot! Ha-ha-ha-_haa_! Ha-ha-ha-_haa_!” ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2012, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/34 "2012-09-29T11:22:34Z")
I think I read that when he died, he was working on a project he called Deaf Jams. Home boy was waaaay ahead of his time. ---
**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 29, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/35 "2012-09-29T16:02:35Z")
What was Beethoven’s favourite fruit? Ba-na-na-NAH! ---
**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 30, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/36 "2012-09-30T02:02:27Z")
And when he was out for lunch, he hung a little sign on his door: \*\*BACH at 1 o’clock. OFFENBACH earlier. \*\* ---
**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 30, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/37 "2012-09-30T02:04:30Z")
Beethoven once commented that the difference between a tenor and an alto is: Tenors don’t have hair on their backs. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827/38 "2013-01-02T21:59:08Z")
You GUYS!!! **panache45** , that’s some panache, my friend!!! Are you serious about that last quote??? Because I want to use that the next time West Georgia College (my alma mater) has another Beethoven Festival. I love you guys, and I am sure the Maestro would have loved you too! Q Also, thanks to **Thudlow Boink** for directing me here! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-about-beethoven/635827.md?page=1)