# Ludwig van Beethoven — Beyond Good and Evil character guide

> Ludwig van Beethoven in Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Beethoven

**First appearance:** 0002-i-prejudices-of-philosophers

## Who they are

German composer referenced as a towering figure in music.

## In the story

### [The Twilight of European Taste: From Mozart to Romanticism](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_good_and_evil_se/chapters/245)

An 'intermediate event' between a decaying old soul and an over-young future; his music bathed in the twilight of loss and extravagant hope of the Rousseau-to-Napoleon era.

### [Beyond Nationalism: The European Soul in Art](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_good_and_evil_se/chapters/256)

Included among the great minds whose souls labored for European unity, transcending national craze.

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