During these years, he was introduced to several people who became important in his life. He often visited the von Breuning family, whose children he taught piano, and the widowed Mrs. Breuning offered him motherly friendship. Here he also met Franz Wegeler, a young medical student who became his lifelong friend. In the von Breuning house, he also met Count Ferdinand von Waldstein, who became Beethoven's friend and financial helper during the Bonn period - in 1791 he commissioned his first work for the stage, the ballet "Music zu einem Ritterballett".
