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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi8vJ_lMxQI

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8vPWH09uc0

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By April 17, the French were close to Vienna. Beethoven wrote a song "Ein grosses, deutsches Volk" Joseph Haydn's "Kaiserlied" is now Germany's national anthem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoBURhpvVGg

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Beethoven goes on a five month tour through Bohemia, Saxony, and Prussia. "Beethoven's career as a pianist burgeoned in 1796 with a five-month tour through Bohemia, Saxony, and Prussia. 'I shall earn considerable money,' he wrote from Prague to his youngest brother. Nikolaus Johann had inevitably followed Cal Caspar to Vienna, and was working as a clerk in a pharmacy. 'Johann' and 'Caspar'- to use their familiar names- were interested in Ludwig's new prosperity. As his naive boost suggested, he was not fiscally responsible. He always wanted more money than contractors could afford, but that was a matter of pride; once ducats were credited to him, he was a free spender and generous lender. Jovially warning Johann to 'beware of the whole guild of wicked women,' he added, 'I hope that your life will grow in happiness and to that end I hope to contribute something.' It was a letter full of sad portent for both of them." (71)

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Beethoven places advertisement in the Wiener Zeitung. Three days after he placed the last notice, he signed a publishing contract with Vienna's top music house, Artaria.

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Beethoven performs a Mozart concerto. "No reviews survive, but he was incited back the following day to improvise before a capacity audience. On Tuesday, March 31, he performed a Mozart concerto in the presence of the composer's widow, Constanze. Short of being commanded to play at Schonbrunn Palace, Beethoven could hardly have been more graced with Viennese favor." (67)

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Beethoven didn't finish his "entirely new" concerto until Friday, March 27 in the afternoon.

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Beethoven plays his public debut. "There are two schools of academic thought as to which piano concerto Beethoven played at his public debut on March 29. Some scholars hold that it was his first, in B-flat major. Others believe it to have been his second, in C major. Yet all insist on calling it 'Beethoven's Second,' since it was published after the concerto he wrote second, known as 'Beethoven's First.' The Second is nevertheless considered his first, because he wrote its first movement in Bonn. Its second movement, however, may not be the one he wrote first; he seems to have composed a second second movement after writing the second movement of the First. Clarifications of this sort are what make musicological conferences so interesting." (66)

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On January 19, Haydn leaves for Britain again.

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In late 1781, Beethoven started studying with Neefe.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christian-Gottlob-Neefe

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Queen Marie Antoinette gets executed. "The execution on October 16 of Queen Marie Antoinette, the first Austrian aristocrat to die in the Reign of Terror, sent a wave of insecurity through the ranks of these nobles. They were aware that the French government had offered to aid any national movement aimed at overthrowing an oligarchy." (58)

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By the end of January of 1793, Haydn had announced that Beethoven had progressed enough in his studies to write grand operas.

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As Beethoven is heading to Frankfurt, there is a chance that he could run into the Hessian and the French army. "One of those moments in which youth rejoices, but which turns older heads gray, occurred on the late afternoon of November 2, 1792, as Beethoven's post coach left Koblenz from Frankfurt. Out of the thickening darkness ahead came the Hessian army, 'going like the devil.' Beethoven had the choice of turning back before getting run down or bribing his coach man to drive on through the advancing file, at risk of being cudgeled. There was also the interesting prospect, if they got through, of encountering the French army on its way north from Mainz." (49)

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Beethoven leaves for Vienna. Count Waldstein writes in a valedictory album about how he is leaving, and that he will receive the spirit of Mozart through the hands of Haydn.

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In the winter of 1791-1792, Mozart and Emperor Leopold II died. "By the time Haydn revisited Bonn, after eighteen months in England, the German scene had changed both musically and politically. Two more deaths, as epochal in their way as that of Joseph II, had shocked Vienna during the winter of 1791-1792: those of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on December 5, and of Emperor Leopold II on March 1." (45)

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In January 1788, Count Ferdinand Waldstein had come to Bonn (Beethoven's home town). He was a friend of Mozart's and had heard of Beethoven.

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Beethoven had played for Mozart. He had gotten news that he mother was ill and he had to go back to his home town. "Jahn is a respected scholar, but his story has to be taken on trust. Beethoven himself never mentioned the audition. He said only that he heard Mozart play, and thought his piano style zerhacktes, 'choppy.' Possibly Mozart did give him 'some instruction,' as a friend claimed many years later. If so, it would have involved taking time off from the composition of Don Giovanni. All we know for sure is that Ludwig had less than two weeks to absorb the staggering fact that he was in Vienna, at the height of its imperial splendor, at the cusp of his own manhood. Emergency information reached him that Maria Magdelena was critically ill, and by April 20 he was on the road back to Bonn." (31-32)

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In 1787, somebody that was probably Neefe, had persuaded Max Franz that there was a "second Mozart".

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On February 15, 1784, Beethoven sent a formal request to be Assistant Court Organist. "On February 15 he sent the Elector a formal request to be appointed Assistant Court Organist. Approving his petition, a palace official noted that the elder Beethoven was 'no longer able to support his family.' Much of Johann's pay was now spent on alcohol: Frau Fischer caught sight of him one day, swigging from a flask while walking down the street." (24)

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In the summer of 1781, Beethoven's father couldn't teach him any more about the piano. That fall, he was taken out of school so that he could get advances lessons from Christian Gottlob Neefe. "By the summer of 1781, Ludwig could learn nothing more from Johann. His other teachers were spreading word of his talent, and it was taken for granted that he would follow his father and grandfather into court service. That fall he was withdrawn form school, and arrangements were made for him to receive advanced instruction from Christian Gottlob Neefe." (20)

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Beethoven started learning music sometime between the spring of 1774, and the fall of 1776. His father Johann taught him.

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Ludwig Beethoven was born on or around December 16, 1770. "Ludwig was born in town, at 515 Bonnagasse, on or about December 16, 1770. The date is not definite. However, Catholic parishes of the period required neonate babies to be brought to the font within twenty-four hours, and on December 17 his baptism was registered at the church of St. Remigius. The entry, written in Latin, identifies him as "Ludovicus"- a solemnization of his name that he came to like in later life, after learning about the grandeur that was Rome. Nor, in view of la gloire de la France, did he ever mind being called "Louis." (12)

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Morris, Edmund. Beethoven. HarperCollins, 2006. Eminent Lives.