【世界文化博览】伟大的作曲家：贝多芬 3

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He was baptised on the 17th of December, 1770 and was probably born the day before.
He came from a musical family. His father was a court tenor. His grandfather was a kapellmeister, the top job. But while his grandfather was a great musician, his father was a failed musician. His mother had a strange relationship towards him. She knew he was a different child, a strange child. She found it difficult to relate to him. He was withdrawn. His father knew from the start that Ludwig was a very specially talented child musically. And he saw him as a way of making money for the family. After all, Mozart's father had done the same with him as a child. He had taken the young Wolfgang abroad to London and so on and earned money through the child and Ludwig's father said, I can do the same. I can really make money out of this child. And to do that, he kept him practising. And according to the children that Ludwig grew up in the same house said, the father would beat him across the hands, if he didn't practise. He would keep him there until dawn.