The Mysterious Side of Beethoven

Jason Pfaff
7 min readNov 24, 2019

Exploring Ludwig Van Beethoven’s ties to the Illuminati and Freemasons.

Ludwig Van Beethoven’s precise date of birth is unknown; he was baptized on December 17, 1770, and it is presumed he was born on December 16th. He is well recognized for his music that still holds strong today, but few know about the mysterious and unusual aspects of his life.

Beethoven was a Freemason that was closely allied with the most infamous of all Masonic orders, the Illuminati of Bavaria, a group that only openly existed for 6 years. Other significant Freemasons in history link to many of the Presidents of the United States and include Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Josef Haydn, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Walt Disney, Leonardo da Vinci, and William Shakespeare- to name a few. However, reviewing Beethoven’s connection to this mystery is not an easy task, as theorists have suggested over the millennium that the facts of history could have been altered or manipulated to preserve the integrity and secrets of such “secret societies”.

Some theorists, scholars, researchers, and conspiracy junkies (that tend to fall to the extreme right) still claim today that the Illuminati and Freemasons are demonic in nature and control the financial and media sectors of the entire planet, plotting a global takeover. Others say the…

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