Short answers, pulled from the story.
Ludwig van Beethoven was born on the 16th of December 1770 in Bonn, Germany, though his baptism was recorded on the 17th of December 1770, which has become the official marker of his birth.
In 1802 Ludwig van Beethoven retreated to Heiligenstadt to confront his encroaching deafness and wrote the Heiligen Testament, a letter to his brothers that he never sent, in which he confessed his thoughts of suicide.
The identity of the recipient of Ludwig van Beethoven's famous unsent love letter written in 1812 remains unknown, with candidates ranging from Julie Guicciardi to Antonie Brentano, the wife of a Viennese publisher.
Ludwig van Beethoven died on the 26th of March 1827 in Vienna, and his funeral procession on the 29th of March 1827 was attended by an estimated 10,000 people.
Ludwig van Beethoven premiered the Ninth Symphony in 1824, which was the first major choral symphony to incorporate a chorus and soloists in the final movement to set Friedrich Schiller's Ode to Joy.