Beethoven was baptized a Roman Catholic, and even wrote religious music. In his 9th symphony, the lyrics contained therein, are both theistic and pagan/mythological. His teacher, Haydn, believed he was an atheist. On his death bed, he protested a priest reading him his last rites, but gave in when his friends convinced him to.
What do you think? Do you think Beethoven was an atheist, deist, or a theist?
Discuss!
Concerning the faith of Ludwig van Beethoven?home theater
Beethoven renounced God at the age of 12 when he became deaf, defied God by obsessively creating his music and believed that "God lived within the human spirit".
Towards the end, after catching syphillis from a Viennese prostitute in Paris, Beethoven believed God to be a "comforting thought to keep man company through the lonely, cosmic night"
I'm not sure what that makes Beethoven.
He believed in God, but thought God to be a 'revolutionary'.
Beethoven never 'approved' of God - he thought God was a 'nuisance'.
Concerning the faith of Ludwig van Beethoven?comedy club opera theater
I neither know nor care.
I think he was a great composer.
He didnt sound like he was sound in his belief i think he was a deist
I think they all had a screw loose and where musical geniuses
A troubled man indeed... ears anyone?
u look at the 9th symphony and tell me that was not inspired by something divine....that music has the power to convert someone so powerful it is, it brings u to ur knees and bows ur head, such a heart that wrote this, must have had God in it.
maybe his mind cud not reconcile what he knew in his heart about Truth with what Catholicism represented for him. I think if i were him, i too would question it, to me religious dogma is so far away removed from the purity and simplicity of Truth
edit: i believe that about elvis too. even to the very end, even if they are not aware of it, the suffering is evidence of something far deeper in their heart that only God could understand
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