My sister and I were called "Das Wunderkind" by my father.

I was arrested by my employer because he did not want me to leave for a new position.

I wrote around 300 cantatas for church services. One was about coffee though!

I wrote total nine symphonies.

I moved to Vienna and became best friends with Haydn.

I am a master of counterpoint and a beast at writing fugues!

There are two conspiracy theories about the way I died.

I was never married nor had any children.

I was known for spending lots of money - especially on red silk jackets!

The beginning of my fifth symphony was used in WWII as part of the BBC broadcasts because it sounds like Morse code for 'V'.

I would walk long distances to hear other musicians perform.

My wife made sure all of my music was published after I died.

I was a concert pianist until I lost my hearing.

I went blind as an old man. My surgeon didn't help things!

I cut the legs off of my pianos so I could feel the vibrations on the floor.

I once wrote down a piece I heard in the Sistine Chapel for memory. I could have gotten in big trouble with the pope had he not been impressed!

I wrote preludes and fugues in every key because I thought it was cool we could play in every key on the new pianos!

I was once arrested for vagrancy because I wandered into a town where no one knew me and they thought I was homeless.

When I died I was in the middle of composing a Requiem Mass - a funeral mass. I thought I was composing my own funeral music.

At the end of the premiere of my ninth symphony, I had to be turned around to see the crowd applauding wildy!

I never published any of my music during my lifetime so when I died everything was put away. My St. Matthew passion was performed 80 years after my death and the revival of my music began.

I fell in love with an opera singer, but she wouldn't marry me. So, I married her sister! (I also loved her!)

I had 20 children! But only about half lived to adulthood.

I moved in Vienna about 80 times - people did not like me as a neighbor. :(