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HAPPY 250th BIRTHDAY, Ludwig van Beethoven!!!

Your music has brought joy to millions of people, and continues to deepen and reveal greater meaning with each subsequent listening!

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by Anonymousreply 19December 16, 2020 7:37 PM

250 and he only looks 25!

by Anonymousreply 1December 16, 2020 10:17 AM

Is that 250 in dog years?

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by Anonymousreply 2December 16, 2020 10:24 AM

Paul Lewis was the pianist who made me like Beethoven's sonatas. Here's the "Appassionata."

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by Anonymousreply 3December 16, 2020 10:29 AM

How reductive.

by Anonymousreply 4December 16, 2020 11:23 AM

Only the Skeldeer on the groundnuts

by Anonymousreply 5December 16, 2020 11:25 AM

He's decomposing.

by Anonymousreply 6December 16, 2020 11:27 AM

He was a self-absorbed, meddlesome cunt.

by Anonymousreply 7December 16, 2020 11:44 AM

Er war ein Deutscher! Aus Bonn!

by Anonymousreply 8December 16, 2020 11:47 AM

R1 - LOL!!! Truly, Ludwig WAS a DataLounger!

by Anonymousreply 9December 16, 2020 1:47 PM

10,000 sing Beethoven.

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by Anonymousreply 10December 16, 2020 1:49 PM

Happy birthday beethoven!!

by Anonymousreply 11December 16, 2020 1:52 PM

My favorite flash mob. Beethoven's 9th. We could all use bit of 'joy'

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by Anonymousreply 12December 16, 2020 1:58 PM

He was gay. And a mean one.

by Anonymousreply 13December 16, 2020 2:05 PM

American answer to Beethoven.

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by Anonymousreply 14December 16, 2020 2:16 PM

Amazing rendition of piano sonata no. 23 (the "Appassionata") by the great Maurizio Pollini.

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by Anonymousreply 15December 16, 2020 2:27 PM

I think the use of Beethoven's music in this scene won the Oscar for The King's Speech.

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by Anonymousreply 16December 16, 2020 3:56 PM

Let's hear it!

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by Anonymousreply 17December 16, 2020 4:30 PM

The 7th Symphony alone is enough to justify his reputation as a genius.

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by Anonymousreply 18December 16, 2020 7:25 PM

The famous "Moonlight Sonata" (although Beethoven didn't name it that himself).

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by Anonymousreply 19December 16, 2020 7:37 PM
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