Ludwig van Beethoven’s Water Obsession
Beethoven wasn’t just obsessed with music—he was also fixated on water. The legendary composer had a strange habit of pouring pitchers of water over his hands multiple times a day. He also insisted on counting exactly 60 coffee beans for every cup of coffee he drank, but that’s a whole other eccentricity.
His compulsive hand washing might have been an early sign of OCD or simply a personal quirk. Some speculate that his rituals helped him stay grounded while dealing with the emotional turmoil of deafness. Whatever the reason, Beethoven’s strange routines paint a more complex—and oddly relatable—picture of the tortured genius.
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