the manic depression of Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven, a brilliant composer, played music that was amazingly breathtaking, all while beethoven was deaf. It was torture for him to not be able to hear the songs he played and so he became manicly depressed, he would drink himself to death and when he got angry he would throw things at people and become like an "enraged animal". As time went on he withdrew from the world and only kept to himself. Still it was his depression that help enspired some of his songs, he would compose according to how he felt, making his music have so much emotion. still the depression got worse and so did his songs, the had less of the flare the worse he got, he wasn't able compose such good music as before because of his depresssion worsening. Before he could finish his tenth symphony he died of liver failure at the age of 56.