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1770 CE - 1827 CE: Life of the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
1770 CE: The composer Ludwig van Beethoven is born in Bonn, Germany.
1779 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven is employed at the Cologne court under the tutorship of the organist and composer Christian Neefe.
1782 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven has his first works published, a set of keyboard variations.
1789 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven takes over responsibility for his family’s affairs from his alcoholic father.
1792 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven moves to Vienna and studies under Joseph Haydn.
1795 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven gives his first public performance at Vienna’s Burgtheater. He plays a new piano concerto.
1798 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven begins to lose his hearing.
1798 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven composes his Pathétique piano sonata.
1800 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven completes his First Symphony.
1801 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven composes his much-admired string quartets.
1801 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven completes his ballet Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus (The Creatures of Prometheus).
1801 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven composes his Moonlight piano sonata.
1802 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven completes his Second Symphony.
1802 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven writes his Heiligenstadt Testament.
1803 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven completes his Third Symphony Eroica.
1805 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven completes his opera Fidelio (initially known as Leonore).
1806 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven completes his Fourth Symphony.
1806 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven completes his Violin Concerto.
1806 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven composes his Razumovsky Quartets.
1808 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven premieres his Fifth and Sixth Symphonies.
1809 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven completes his Fifth Piano Concerto, titled 'Emperor'.
1811 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven completes his Seventh Symphony.
1812 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven completes his Eighth Symphony.
1815 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven assumes the legal guardianship of his nephew Karl.
1818 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven is completely deaf.
1823 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven composes his Diabelli Variations on a Waltz and the Missa solemnis.
1824 CE: Ludwig van Beethoven completes his Ninth Symphony.
1827 CE: The composer Ludwig van Beethoven dies of liver disease in Vienna.