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Beethoven

BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Monday, November 29, 1824 (very approximately)

Unfortunately, Beethoven, never a model tenant, gets in trouble with his new landlady at 969 Johannesgasse, Frau Kletschka, almost immediately. According to family traditions related by her great-grandson, a well-known Viennese doctor, Julié v. Lavandal, “Beethoven came forward as the tenant for the apartment on the fourth floor, which had …