Ludwig van Beethoven & Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Did Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe live at the same time?

Yes. Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lived at the same time for 57 years, from 1770 to 1827.^[1][2][3][4]

Ludwig van Beethoven · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Born in 1770 · Born in 1749

Ludwig van Beethoven

1770–1827

Music

Symphonies composed while going deaf

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1749–1832

Literature

German poet and author of Faust

How Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Are Connected

• In 1812 Goethe met his admirer Ludwig van Beethoven twice, in Teplice and Vienna; Beethoven had set music to Goethe's Egmont two years earlier.^[3]

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