# Today is Beethoven's 250th Birthday **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [December 18, 2020, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-beethovens-250th-birthday/928349 "2020-12-18T18:15:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-beethovens-250th-birthday/928349/1 "2020-12-18T18:15:34Z")
Sorry – missed it by two days. Didn’t see anything about it up, though. … or, as this article puts it, a Quarter of a Millennium of Beethoven > **[Quarter millennium of Ludwig van Beethoven](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/16/2001151/-Quarter-millennium-of-Ludwig-van-Beethoven?utm_campaign=spotlight)** > > Today marks the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth. Born on December 16, 1770 in Bonn, Beethoven is almost unanimously acknowledged as one of the greatest composers of all time. > > ... I’m a huge Beethoven fan, especially as performed by Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonik. Gonna pull out the symphonies and overtures. Maybe even the “10th” symphony. > **[Symphony No. 10 (Beethoven/Cooper)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._10_(Beethoven/Cooper))** > > Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 10 in E♭ major is a hypothetical work, assembled in 1988 by Barry Cooper from Beethoven's fragmentary sketches for the first movement. All the sketches assembled were clearly intended for the same symphony, which would have followed the Ninth, since they appear together in several small groups, and there is consensus that Beethoven did intend to compose another symphony. Cooper's score was first performed at a concert given in 1988 by the Royal Philharmonic So... [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/To4HHCZtNXg/maxresdefault.jpg "Beethoven - Symphony No 10 (arr Cooper) Morris, LSO (1988) plus Lecture by Cooper") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To4HHCZtNXg) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-beethovens-250th-birthday/928349/2 "2020-12-18T18:52:31Z")
[![](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2ATEOFNGxA0/VIr-bfHzVpI/AAAAAAAAB-4/GXYEdKR0H-Y/s280/Beethoven's%2BB'day%2B(squ).png) ](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2ATEOFNGxA0/VIr-bfHzVpI/AAAAAAAAB-4/GXYEdKR0H-Y/s280/Beethoven's%2BB'day%2B(squ).png) ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-beethovens-250th-birthday/928349/3 "2020-12-18T20:03:49Z")
[Beethoven Day!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFjE1NnnAIQ&ab_channel=DanielClegg) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-beethovens-250th-birthday/928349/4 "2020-12-18T20:21:05Z")
That’s 35.7 in Saint Bernard years. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-beethovens-250th-birthday/928349/5 "2020-12-18T20:22:23Z")
How much is Schroeder responsible for Beethoven’s fame among average Americans? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-beethovens-250th-birthday/928349/6 "2020-12-18T20:22:27Z")
I mentioned it on the 16th in the “Humorous Allusions to Actors’ Previous Roles” thread. (Post 14.) [![](https://i0.wp.com/www.afnews.info/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Peanuts-Schroeder_resize.jpg) ](https://i0.wp.com/www.afnews.info/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Peanuts-Schroeder_resize.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-beethovens-250th-birthday/928349/7 "2020-12-18T21:47:37Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Beethoven Beethoven: a composer for nearly 45 years and a decomposer for nearly 200. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-beethovens-250th-birthday/928349/8 "2020-12-18T22:01:27Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Beethoven: a composer for nearly 45 years and a decomposer for nearly 200. Yeah, but it took Brahms nearly 14 years to complete his **Lullabye** (for obvious reasons). ---
**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:** [December 19, 2020, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-beethovens-250th-birthday/928349/9 "2020-12-19T07:00:44Z")
I remember Beethoven’s 200th birthday. Lots of concerts that year. Sadly, this time around COVID has canceled most of the festivities. Not all, though. And classical radio stations had exclusively Beethoven days. Guess I can recycle this from a Thread Games thread: Higgeldy Piggeldy, Ludwig von Beethoven, Wrote on the treble and Also bass clef. Sestercentennial December sixteenth, We’d sing _Happy Birthday,_ Except Ludwig’s deaf. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-beethovens-250th-birthday/928349/10 "2020-12-19T10:07:50Z")
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**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-beethovens-250th-birthday/928349/11 "2020-12-19T13:12:47Z")
The slow movement of the Hamerklavier sonata is one of my favorite pieces of music. Although Shostakovich said it was “boring.” ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-beethovens-250th-birthday/928349/12 "2020-12-20T20:20:18Z")
Emily Lettella. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-beethovens-250th-birthday/928349/13 "2020-12-21T02:20:52Z")
**Nitpick:** It’s Litella. Because she wrote about “Little, teeny, tiny … things.” 😃 [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/HCzSHQb-Ju8/maxresdefault.jpg "Looks at Books: Emily Litella - SNL") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCzSHQb-Ju8)