Did Beethoven have any social skills?
by 
Larry Rhodes
ANSWERS: 4
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oh man... never thought about that one. Good question.... was he born deaf? if he wasnt then he must have before he went deaf.
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Yes. And furthermore, he knew how to put on a show and work a crowd. He understood how people responded to music and he used that to affect people. He developed political relationships and had a wife and kids.
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Did you ever see the movie Beethoven Lives Upstairs? It is a true classic. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096903/ "To say that he had few social skills would be understating the case. He simply didn't get along with people, but perhaps those people never saw him at his best, for, in the composer's own words, "I love a tree more than a man." Beethoven was always most at ease when vacationing in the countryside, where he could take long solitary walks through the fields and the woods. As he wrote once to a friend, "How glad I am to be able to roam in wood and thicket, among the trees and flowers and rocks. No one can love the country as I do ... my bad hearing does not trouble me here. In the country, every tree seems to speak to me, saying 'Holy! Holy!'." Source: http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/beethoven_sym6.html
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Yes, Beethoven actually did have social skills. Though it is VERY true that he did not do well in public, around others - that he was rude, fiery, and at times violent - around a group of friends, he was a great man, full of wit and charm, as shown in his Conversation Books. He was deaf, as well all know, and that really just... jaded him futher, pushed him out father from seocity... it's not surpising really, looking at his time in Bonn, looking at well... everything, to see why he wouldn't be that kind to those he wasn't already close to.
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