Beethoven, Ludwig van
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![Silhouette image made of Beethoven when he was sixteen. He wears the uniform and wig suited to his employment as a court musician in Bonn.[13] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Silhouette_de_Beethoven_%C3%A0_16_ans.png "Silhouette image made of Beethoven when he was sixteen. He wears the uniform and wig suited to his employment as a court musician in Bonn.[13] (Source: Wikimedia)")
![The earliest known portrait of Beethoven; 1801 engraving by Johann Joseph Neidl after a now-lost portrait by Gandolph Ernst Stainhauser von Treuberg, c. 1800[34] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ludwig_van_Beethoven,_aged_twenty-six_(1796).jpg "The earliest known portrait of Beethoven; 1801 engraving by Johann Joseph Neidl after a now-lost portrait by Gandolph Ernst Stainhauser von Treuberg, c. 1800[34] (Source: Wikimedia)")
![Beethoven in 1818 by August Klöber [de] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beethoven_7.jpg "Beethoven in 1818 by August Klöber [de] (Source: Wikimedia)")
![Beethoven in 1819 depicted in a portrait by Ferdinand Schimon [de] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ludwig_Van_Beethoven_LCCN2003663902.jpg "Beethoven in 1819 depicted in a portrait by Ferdinand Schimon [de] (Source: Wikimedia)")
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