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Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven, lithograph after an 1819 portrait by Ferdinand Schimon, c. 1870.
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, in the archbishopric of Cologne (modern-day Germany), and was baptized on December 17, 1770.1