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 * Dec 17 1770 Beethoven was born.

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 * Beethoven's first music teacher was his father. Although tradition has it that Johann van Beethoven was a harsh instructor, and that the child Beethoven Gilles van den Eeden Tobias Friedrich Pfeiffer and Franz Rovantini Beethoven's musical talent was obvious at a young age. Johann, aware of Leopold Mozart 's successes in this area (with son Wolfgang  and daughter Nannerl ), attempted to exploit his son as a child prodigy , claiming that Beethoven was six on the posters for Beethoven's first public performance in March 17. Beethoven wrote Ode to Joy and Fur Elise.
 * By 1793, Beethoven established a reputation as an improviser in the salons of the nobility. His friend Nikolaus Shamrock  had begun publishing his compositions; the first are believed to be a set of variations. By 1793, he had established a reputation in Vienna as a piano virtuoso, but he apparently withheld works from publication so that their publication in 1795 would have greater impact. Beethoven's first public performance in Vienna was in March 1795, a concert in which he first performed one of his piano consorts.