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Ludwig van Beethoven deafness

If Beethoven was completely deaf, how did he compose music?

Ludwig van Beethoven and Nannette Streicher

Meet Nannette Streicher, ‘the woman who built Beethoven’s pianos’

A step-by-step guide to Beethoven’s nine symphonie

A step-by-step guide to Beethoven’s nine symphonies

John Lennon inspired by Beethoven

This John Lennon song is based on Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata

Beethoven in Havana

Someone has turned this Beethoven symphony into an extraordinary Cuban rumba

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10 of the greatest composers who broke the law

Beethoven News

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Classical music cues cleaning in Taiwan

Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ alerts Taiwanese residents to take out their trash

Bad Beethoven t-shirt reviews

Musicians are leaving savage reviews of this incorrect Beethoven Fifth t-shirt

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Beethoven in 250 words.

Beethoven at 250: famous figures share what his music means to them, in 250 words

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Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral')

The remarkable story of Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony No. 9 and the ‘Ode to Joy’

Beethoven art

10 works of Beethoven that actually changed the world

Beethoven Moonlight Sonata

Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata: discover the 1801 piano masterpiece

Beethoven Pictures

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Beethoven composer letters

Letters of the great composers: 14 moving, funny and inspiring quotations from the documents they left behind

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Arturo Toscanini

Classic FM's Essential Beethoven Recordings

Beethoven Album Reviews

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New Releases: Khatia Buniatishvili plays Rachmaninov and Dvorak with the LPO

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Sol Gabetta Beethoven Trio Carmignola

Beethoven: Triple Concerto

Angela Hewitt Beethoven piano sonatas Hyperion

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas - Angela Hewitt