Beethoven on the violin
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Beethoven: Compositions, biography, siblings and more facts
4. Beethoven on the violin
As a young boy, Beethoven played the violin, often enjoying improvisation rather than reading the notes from a score. His father once asked: “What silly trash are you scratching together now? You know I can’t bear that – scratch by note, otherwise your scratching won’t amount to much.” How wrong he was…
