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From the standpoint of personal hygiene, Beethoven was a slob. He rarely cleaned his clothes, he didn't always dump out his chamber pots, and he had an annoying habit of spitting on the mirror, mistaking it for a window. |
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Beethoven also wrote the most famous depressive manifesto in music history while staying in this not-too-bad suburban dwelling... |
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The house at Heiligenstadt doesn't seem to warrent suicidal thoughts, but Beethoven wrote his famous Testament here in 1802. |
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The rooms themselves are rather spacious, so it wasn't the dwelling itself which was getting him down, but rather his deafness... |