Ludwig van Beethoven: Difference between revisions

|species=Human

|origin     = [[Earth]]

|appearances    = [[WC]]: ''[[The Lonely Computer]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Gone Too Soon]]''

}}'''Ludwig van Beethoven''' was a [[Germany|German]] composer. He was arguably the most famous of all classical composers on Earth. He continued to compose music even after becoming completely deaf.

The [[Sixth Doctor]] was present at the birth of Beethoven and gave his mother enough money to raise the child that her husband did not want. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Gone Too Soon]]'')

The [[Tenth Doctor]] claimed to have learned how to play the organ (or possibly keyboard instruments in general) from Beethoven, suggesting the two had met. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lazarus Experiment]]'') After the Doctor and Beethoven were abducted by [[Momus]] for a dinner party, the Doctor told Beethoven that he loved his ''Fifth''. ([[WC]]: ''[[The Lonely Computer]]'')

In an unconfirmed incident at the [[Royal Albert Hall]], the [[Tenth Doctor]] claimed to have once asked Beethoven if he could "rattle off a tune," to which Beethoven reportedly replied, "Pardon?" ([[TV]]: ''[[Music of the Spheres]]'')

On [[Nocturne]], [[Korbin Thessinger]] played Beethoven to lure a noise creature into a trap. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Nocturne (audio story)|Nocturne]]'')

[[File:Twelve and Beethoven.jpg|left|thumb|The [[Twelfth Doctor]] holding a bust of Beethoven on the [[TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood]]'')]]

When the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] landed in the [[Hanging Gardens of Babylon]], the [[First Doctor]] said that the music they were hearing was not Beethoven. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Farewell, Great Macedon (audio story)|Farewell, Great Macedon]]'')

Beethoven wrote "[[Ode to Joy]]", which was part of Beethoven's Ninth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Ode to Joy (short story)|Ode to Joy]]'')

The [[Twelfth Doctor]] used the hypothetical non-existence of Beethoven in a story (which didn't happen) as an example of the "Bootstrap [[paradox]]", where a time traveller travelled back to 18th century Germany and copied out the concertos and symphonies he had brought with him and gets ''them'' published after finding out no-one knew who Beethoven was; the time traveller essentially becoming Beethoven. He described Beethoven as a "[n]ice chap, very intense," and that he "[l]oved an arm wrestle." ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'')

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