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Excerpt from The Violin Music of Beethoven
To Beethoven's violin playing there is but little allu sion in the biographies, but it is known that in 1785 he was studying the violin with F ranz Ries, father of Ferdinand Ries, from whom Louis Ries of Monday Pop. Fame and Franz Ries, the composer of the well known suites for violin and piano, are directly descended. Beethoven was then fifteen; later in life we are told that he was fond of amusing himself occasionally with the double bass.
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