Beethoven Dies
April 25, 1827
In a Vienna apartment, amid a spring thunderstorm said to have drawn from him one final raised fist, Ludwig van Beethoven died at fifty-six, deaf and ill. Twenty thousand people followed the coffin. Schubert was a torchbearer. The ninth symphony, the late quartets, and the impossible idea of what music could do were his legacy.
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.