Bio About Beethoven. He was born December 16,1770-Bonn. He died March 26,1827-Vienna. He composed symphony's between 1799 and 1824. He studied under Haydn for less than a year in 1793. In 1801, he wrote a letter to his loss of hearing.
Beethoven's Childhood At a very early age, Beethoven received a violin and piano lessons from his father. At the age of eight, he studied theory and keyboard with van den Eeden. He also studied with several local organists, received piano lessons from Tobias Fredrick Pfeiffer, and Franz Rovantini gave him violin and violin lessens. Although Beethoven's musical genius was compared to that of Mozart's, his education never exceeded elementary school level.