Ludwig van Beethoven text message story: Beethoven on the group call
A short, funny Telegram-style chat starring Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 to 1827), German composer, with two musician friends. The comedy is the call itself, a group video chat where everyone talks over each other, with a composer who answers with the shortest line he has.
Who was Ludwig van Beethoven?
- He wrote nine symphonies, and the Ninth, with its choral finale, was first performed in 1824.
- He began to lose his hearing in his late twenties and kept composing for the rest of his life.
- He moved to Vienna as a young man and made his living there as a composer and performer.
The chat is invented. Ludwig van Beethoven never sent these messages, and the story is labelled as fiction wherever it appears.
How this chat is built
It runs 10 messages between Joseph and Ludwig and Franz. Ludwig writes 5 of them. The longest line is “Ludwig, you are on mute. no, UNmute” (Joseph) and the shortest is “WHAT” (Ludwig). The word “what” comes back 3 times, which is where the rhythm of the joke comes from. It closes on “WHAT” from Ludwig.
It is shown in the Telegram look , one of the Telegram-style chat tools. In the editor you can switch it to any other look and the whole conversation follows.