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You walk along Bonngasse in the centre of Bonn . At number 20 you see a tall , quiet house . This is the Beethoven House . Ludwig van Beethoven was born here in 1770 . People built it around 1700 . Only a few houses from the 1700s are still standing in Bonn . His parents lived in the back of the house . The bedrooms were at the top , under the roof . He was probably born in one of the small rooms there . Nobody knows the exact day . Only his baptism is written down . It was on 17 December 1770 . Today the house is a museum . He played it in the court orchestra when he was 18 . You can see his last piano , too . Conrad Graf made it in Vienna , and Beethoven could use it in 1826 . Later in life , Beethoven could not hear well . In 1813 , a man named Mälzel made ear trumpets for him . You can see them in the museum . You also see the keyboard of a church organ . Beethoven played on it as a boy , from the age of ten . The house is at the edge of the pedestrian zone . In the garden , you see many busts of Beethoven . 
