Happy Birthday, Ludpig Von Beeethoven! 🐹 🎼 🎶 🎻 🎹 🎂 🥕


"🎵 You know my temperature's risin'
The jukebox blowin' a fuse
My heart's beatin' rhythm
And my soul keep a-singin' the blues
Roll over Beethoven
Tell Tchaikovsky the news!"

~ Roll Over Beethoven, Chuck Berry, 1956

December 16th is quite the historic day, including Beethoven's birthday (1770), the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party (1773), and Jane Austen's birthday (1775)! If this is your or your guinea pig's birthday, you are in good company!

Ludwig (or as his friends knew him, "Ludpig") van Beethoven was a revolutionary guinea pig composer whose works bridged the Classical to Romantic period! His dramatic wheeks, thunderous teeth-chattering, and unapologetic demands for snacks forever changed classical music—and the contents of the hay rack.

Instantly recognizable by his gloriously wild, uncombed romantic fur style, he wore his genius (and bedhead) with equal intensity.

Born in Bonn in 1770, young Beethoven showed early promise by loudly rearranging food bowls into what historians now call his Early Period. He became famous for his fierce beady-eyed stare, storm-cloud fluff attitude, and habit of knocking and nibbling sheet music off the stand, insisting that true art should be memorized!

Despite gradual hearing loss (a tragic condition involving missed treat-bag crinkles), Beethoven produced his most famous works, including the iconic Symphony No. 5 (Fate Knocks, I Ignore It), Moonlight Sonata (Played Entirely at 3 a.m.), and his final masterpiece, Ode to Joy (Ode to Lettuce)—a triumphant celebration of unity, freedom, and leafy greens, without being able to hear the music he composed!

His music remains a staple of piano students, including the well known Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor (WoO 59, Bia 515), better known as Für Elise, a piano study for guinea sow piglet, Elise!

But as we all know, it's true title is actually "Fur" or "Furry" Elise, sans umlaut, in Arugula minor, of course.

For your guinea pig's listening pleasure, we have something for every taste.

Hear the Beatles version of Roll Over Beethoven, and a "Fifth of Beethoven", a disco version of that was featured in the iconic Saturday Night Fever, the the tune and funky vibe of which recycled by Robin Thicke (in his scruffy guinea pig period) for "When I Get You Alone"), cleaned up later on the show Glee, sung by Darren Criss.

Beethoven might actually be rolling over with tributes like these. 😜 😜 😜

Got a favourite?

WoO hoo and Wheek! Wheek!