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Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven, lithograph after an 1819 portrait by Ferdinand Schimon, c. 1870.
Ludwig van Beethovenās funeral, which took place in Vienna on March 29, 1827, was attended by approximately 20,000 people.1